Sigrid Gurie
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 18, 1911, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- August 14, 1969
- Movies
- 12
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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.
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1951 | Joe Santa Claus | Ellen |
| 1950 | The du Pont Story | Sophie du Pont |
| 1948 | Sofia | Linda Carlsen |
| 1948 | Sword of the Avenger | Maria Louisa |
| 1944 | Enemy of Women | Magda Quandt [bit] |
| 1944 | Voice in the Wind | Marya |
| 1940 | Dark Streets of Cairo | Ellen Stephens |
| 1940 | Three Faces West | Leni 'Lenchen' Braun |
| 1939 | Rio | Irene Reynard |
| 1939 | The Forgotten Woman | Anne Kennedy |
| 1938 | The Adventures of Marco Polo | Princess Kukachin |
| 1938 | Algiers | Ines |
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