Sonja Henie Movies

Want to know the best Sonja Henie movies?  How about the worst Sonja Henie movies?  Curious about Sonja Henie box office grosses or which Sonja Henie movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Sonja Henie movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Sonja Henie (1912-1969) was a 3-time Norwegian Olympic Champion figure skater.  After her skating career she turned her attention to Hollywood.  She very quickly became one the most popular stars working.  Quigley Publications’ annual survey of Top Box Office stars listed her in the Top 10 three times. She was the 8th biggest star in 1937, 3rd biggest in 1938 and 10th in 1939.  Her IMDb page shows 13 acting credits from 1927-1949. This page will rank 11 Sonja Henie movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.

Sonja Henie Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Sonja Henie Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Sonja Henie films by co-stars of her movies
  • Sort Sonja Henie films by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Sonja Henie films by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Sonja Henie films by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Sonja Henie film received.
  • Sort Sonja Henie films by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Sonja Henie Table

  1. Eight Sonja Henie movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark.  That is a percentage of 72.72% of her movies listed. Happy Landing (1938) was her biggest box office hit.
  2. An average Sonja Henie movie grosses $148.30 million in adjusted box office gross.
  3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  3 Sonja Henie movies are rated as good movies…or 27.27% of her movies.  Sun Valley Serenade (1941) was her highest rated movie while My Lucky Star (1938) was her lowest rated movie.
  4. Three Sonja Henie movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 27.27% of her movies.
  5. Zero Sonja Henie movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 0.00% of her movies.
  6. An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00. 10 Sonja Henie movies scored higher than that average….or 90.90% of her movies. Sun Valley Serenade (1941) got the the highest UMR Score while The Countess of Monte Cristo (1949) got the lowest UMR Score.

Ten Possibly Interesting Facts About Sonja Henie

1. Sonja Henie was born in Kristiania (now Oslo) Norway in 1912.

2. Sonja Henie’s father, Wilhelm Henie, was a World Cycling Champion.  Sonja and her siblings were encouraged to take up a variety of sports at a young age. Sonja initially showed talent at skiing, then followed her older brother, Leif, to take up figure skating.

3. As a girl Sonja Henie also was a nationally ranked tennis player, and a skilled swimmer and equestrienne.

4. Sonja Henie won the first of an unprecedented ten consecutive World Figure Skating Championships in 1927 at the age of fourteen.

5. Sonja Henie is credited with being the first figure skater to adopt the short skirt costume in figure skating, wear white boots, and make use of dance choreography. Her innovative skating techniques and glamorous demeanor transformed the sport permanently and confirmed its acceptance as a legitimate sport in the Winter Olympics

6.  Sonja Henie won 3 Olympic gold medals between 1928 and 1936. She was the first skater to parlay her athletic success into a lucrative career.

7.  Throughout her movie career at 20th Century-Fox, Sonja Henie was a savvy contract negotiator, and at one point was paid more per picture than Shirley Temple, who was a much bigger box office draw (the year Henie peaked at #3, Temple was still #1). Fox studio head Daryl F. Zanuck was said to resent the exorbitant fees Henie got for her work, and was reputedly delighted when her contact finally expired in the early 1940s.

8. After her film career had run its course, Sonja Henie stayed in the public eye by producing and starring in a series of live, touring ice shows and extravaganzas until just before her death in 1969.

9. Sonja Henie was married three times…..she did not have any children.

10. Check out Sonja Henie’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

17 thoughts on “Sonja Henie Movies

  1. I have seen 2 Sonja Henie movies. I mainly watched SUN VALLEY SENERADE in order to hear and see Glenn Miller’s big band. Not so much to see Sonja. I also saw ICELAND but other than that , I haven’t seen any of her other movies. ICELAND was a boring movie. If you haven’t seen it you are not missing anything in my humble opinion.

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