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Years active
  
1937–1950

Name
  
Sigrid Gurie


Role
  
Actress

Siblings
  
Knut Haukelid

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Full Name
  
Sigrid Gurie Haukelid

Born
  
May 18, 1911 (
1911-05-18
)
New York City, USA

Died
  
August 14, 1969, Mexico City, Mexico

Spouse
  
Lynn Abbott (m. 1958–1961), Lawrence Spangard (m. 1939–1948), Thomas Stewart (m. 1935–1938)

Parents
  
Bjorgulv Haukelid, Sigrid Haukelid

Movies
  
Algiers, The Adventures of Marco, Three Faces West, Sword of the Avenger, Enemy of Women

Similar People
  
Knut Haukelid, Archie Mayo, John Cromwell, John Ford, Alfred Zeisler

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Sigrid Gurie (May 18, 1911 – August 14, 1969) was a Norwegian American motion picture actress from the late 1930s to early 1940s.

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Early life

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She was born Sigrid Gurie Haukelid in Brooklyn, New York, to Bjørulf Knutson Haukelid (1878–1944) and Sigrid Johanne Christophersen (1877–1969).

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Her father was a civil engineer who worked for the New York City Subway from 1902 to 1912. Since Sigrid Gurie and her twin brother Knut Haukelid were born in America, the twins held dual Norwegian-American citizenship. In 1914 the family returned to Norway. Sigrid Gurie subsequently grew up in Oslo and was educated in Norway, Sweden, and Belgium. In 1935 Gurie married Thomas Stewart of California; she filed for divorce in 1938. Her brother became a noted member of the Norwegian resistance movement during World War II.

Career

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In 1936, Gurie arrived in Hollywood. Film magnate Sam Goldwyn reportedly took credit for discovering her, promoting his discovery as "the new Garbo" and billed her as "the siren of the fjords". When the press discovered Gurie's birth in Flatbush, Goldwyn then claimed "the greatest hoax in movie history." She starred as Kokashin, daughter of Kublai Khan, in the 1938 production of The Adventures of Marco Polo, and went on to give worthwhile performances in such films as Algiers (1938), Three Faces West (1940) and Voice in the Wind (1944). She had a minor role in the classic Norwegian film Kampen om tungtvannet (1948). The movie was based principally on the book Skis Against the Atom which was written by her brother.

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In the late 1940s she attended the Kann Art Institute, operated in West Hollywood by abstract artist Frederick I. Kann (1886–1965). She studied oils and portraiture. Among her works were landscapes, portraits and pen and ink sketches.

From 1961 to 1969 she lived in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she continued painting, and was also designing jewelry for Royal Copenhagen in Denmark. She entered the hospital in Mexico City on an emergency basis for a recurring kidney problem, then developed a blood clot that passed through her lungs, which led to her death.

Filmography

Actress
1951
Gruen Guild Theater (TV Series) as
Ellen
- Joe Santa Claus (1951) - Ellen
1950
The Du Pont Story as
Sophie du Pont
1948
Sofia as
Linda Carlsen
1948
Sword of the Avenger as
Maria Louisa
1944
Enemy of Women as
Magda Quandt
1944
Voice in the Wind as
Marya Volny
1940
Dark Streets of Cairo as
Ellen Stephens
1940
Three Faces West as
Leni 'Lenchen' Braun
1939
Rio as
Irene Reynard
1939
The Forgotten Woman as
Anne Kennedy
1938
Algiers as
Ines
1938
The Adventures of Marco Polo as
Princess Kukachin
1937
The Road Back as
Soldier's Wife (uncredited)
Soundtrack
1939
Rio (performer: "Love Opened My Eyes", "Heart of Mine", "It Seems To Be Spring" - uncredited)
Self
2003
Norwegian Actresses in Hollywood (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1941
Picture People No. 1: Stars in Defense (Short) as
Self
1938
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 1 (Documentary short) as
Self
Archive Footage
2022
Die Moldau: Smetanas Welterfolg (TV Movie documentary) as
Self

References

Sigrid Gurie Wikipedia