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person_profile-Sigrid Gurie

Sigrid Gurie Died at age: 58

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Sigrid Gurie

Date of Birth:

May 18, 1911

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Aug 14, 1969

Biography of

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.

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Sigrid Gurie

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Filmography of

Sigrid Gurie

Found 10 Movies in total

Sofia

Linda Carlsen ( Actor )

... 1948

Sword of the Avenger

Maria Louisa ( Actor )

... 1948

Enemy of Women

Magda Quandt [bit] ( Actor )

... 1944

Voice in the Wind

Marya ( Actor )

... 1944

Dark Streets of Cairo

Ellen Stephens ( Actor )

... 1940

Three Faces West

Leni 'Lenchen' Braun ( Actor )

... 1940

Rio

Irene Reynard ( Actor )

... 1939

The Forgotten Woman

Anne Kennedy ( Actor )

... 1939

The Adventures of Marco Polo

Princess Kukachin ( Actor )

... 1938

Algiers

Ines ( Actor )

... 1938