Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
11
Gender
Female
Birthday
May 18, 1911 ( 58 years old )
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Sigrid Guri Haukelid
Sigrid Gurie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sigrid Gurie (May 18, 1911 – August 14, 1969) was a Norwegian American motion picture actress from the late 1930s to early 1940s. 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. 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.
Known For
Algiers
1938-01-16Rio
1939-09-29Three Faces West
1940-07-03Voice in the Wind
1944-03-03The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938-04-07Enemy of Women
1944-11-10Dark Streets of Cairo
1940-12-01The Du Pont Story
1950-12-15Sword of the Avenger
1948-06-02Sofia
1948-09-03