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Happy Landing (Twentieth Century-Fox), is blonde, Figure Skater Sonja Henie's third motion picture, makes it clear that Producer Darryl Zanuck must soon find some other way of keeping Miss Henie's films fresh than by putting them on ice. To give Sonja presentable, even spectacular, settings in which to display her twinkling, silver-bladed eurythmy is a set designer's holiday. But to blend a plot with her icebound talents is something not even a Zanuck budget seems to be able to accomplish. Happy Landing makes Miss Henie a million-dollar sideshow on a cheapskate...
...streets of her native Oslo, Sonja Henie causes almost as much of a stir as King Haakon. In the U. S., where she has been developed into a Hollywood cinemactress in the two years since she abdicated her amateur standing as figure-skating champion of the world, Sonja Henie's popularity is fast becoming comparable to that of Mary Pickford when she was America's Sweetheart...
...toppled onto her head during the filming of Happy Landing, Garden officials promptly cabled Lloyd's of London to ask for a $250,000 accident-insurance policy. Of the long procession of sport figures-from Dempsey to Vast, the wonder horse-who had preceded 24-year-old Sonja in Madison Square Garden's five-decade history, not one had ever been considered worthy of such a precaution...
...Shirley Temple topped the list. Last month the Herald's 1937 international survey found Shirley still top favorite. Other leaders, in order: Clark Gable, William Powell and Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper, Gracie Fields, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers and George Formby (English comedian), Jane Withers, Jeanette MacDonald, Sonja Henie, Myrna Loy and Laurel & Hardy...
During the shooting of Happy Landing, Skater Sonja Henie fell, landed on her head, was treated for slight concussion. Few days later Norway's King Haakon made her a Knight of St. Olaf...