Word: sigrid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Cinemactress Sigrid Gurie, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.'s "Norwegian Garbo"; from Thomas W. Stewart; in Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: "My husband slapped me, threatened to thrash me, and said he would lock me out of the house...
...plot really unfolds, and gives free play to the intrigues of Ahmed, the petulant beauty of the Princess Kuhachin, and the trusting, almost child-like simplicity of the great Kublai Khan. Basil Rathbone, as the scheming minister of state, is as sly and villainous as in past pictures. Sigrid Gurie, Sam Goldwyn's famed Norwegian discovery from Brooklyn, is at times a bit annoying with her studied cuteness, while George Barbier plays his role as the great Khan in a manner more reminiscent of a genial Tammany district leader that the fierce and terrifying warrior of ancient China. Gary Cooper...
...years ago, Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn imported pretty Sigrid Gurie from Norway, secluded her in a Hollywood Hills bungalow till she learned English, then put her in The Adventures of Marco Polo. Last week, Miss Gurie and her husband, a small businessman named Thomas Stewart, were in the Los Angeles divorce court, and a few perfunctory questions brought out that she was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. Said Mr. Goldwyn: "The greatest hoax in box-office history ... I am a very happy victim...
Behind her rigging and wigging, Princess Kukachin is blonde, wide-mouthed Norwegian Sigrid Gurie, engaged by Producer Goldwyn with elaborate secrecy. Cinemaudiences may recognize her as the girl Gary Cooper taught to kiss in one four-minute cinema lesson, a sequence to go down in cinema history with the Garbo-Gilbert pacesetter (Flesh and the Devil) and the May Irwin-John C. Rice long count...
...stories for "their solid, youthful worth, their irony, their humor, their peasant lustiness." ALLI'S SON-Magnhild Haalke-Knopf ($2.50). Sombre Norwegian story of a young sailor's wife whose son becomes a psychopathic case; a first novel recommended to U. S. readers by Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset...