Word: sonja
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fusing skating with the dance, Sonja and a chorus of skaters offer an almost unrivaled opportunity for the greatest extravaganza performance of the year. Yet, Hollywood showed admirable restraint and succeeded in maintaining a rather simple and refreshing spirit...
Figure skating, heretofore commonly regarded as something of a backyard sport, has been expanded in "One in a Million" into an exceedingly graceful art or sport which ever it may be. Introducing Sonja Henie, twice Olympic figure skating champion, this picture is one of the most unusual to be recently released...
...skinny, macabre Viennese named Friedrich Feher. Mr. Feher is now a grey-haired, heavy-set man who looks like the composer he has become. Two years ago, Composer Feher got the notion of a cinema in which music would bear the burden of narration. With his voluptuous wife, Magda Sonja, and his chubby son, Hans, in the main roles, he wrote, composed, directed and cut The Robber Symphony. It won immediate success in Europe, was chosen one of the ten best pictures of the year in 1936 by the International Artistic Motion Picture Exhibition in Venice. Last week, chaperoned...
...Sonja Henie in one ballet costume after another, Sonja Henie dancing on ice with an elaborate troupe of chorus boys and girls waltzing in the background, Sonja Henie executing the most difficult dips and turns with the greatest of ease--all go to make up "One in a Million." Although there is a fairly talented supporting cast, Miss Henie gets along quite well in her own right. The story is slim, with a half-hearted love interest (Don Ameche vs. La Henie) cropping up from time to time, but so passive is it that it never interferes with the principal...
...Sonja Henie contradicts not only the law of gravity but also the rule that women athletes are physically unsuited for roles as romantic heroines. A trim-figured blonde with brown eyes, plump cheeks, a dimpled smile, she fits with assurance into an anecdote-about a U. S. theatrical manager (Adolphe Menjou) on the lookout for new talent while touring the Alps with his own troupe-of which the chief virtue is the fact that it is not much impaired by interruptions. In addition to Sonja Henie's skating, these include harmonica-tooting by Borrah Minnevitch & band, singing by Leah...