Actor
Sigrid Gurie
May 18, 1911 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Often works with
Alan Hale
2 titles together
Algiers, The Adventures of Marco Polo
Paul Harvey
2 titles together
Algiers, The Forgotten Woman
Stanley Fields
2 titles together
Algiers, The Adventures of Marco Polo
Robert Greig
2 titles together
Algiers, The Adventures of Marco Polo
Trevor Bardette
2 titles together
Three Faces West, Sword of the Avenger
Basil Rathbone
2 titles together
The Adventures of Marco Polo, Rio
Full filmography · 12
Joe Santa Claus
as Ellen
1951The du Pont Story
as Sophie du Pont
1950
Sofia
as Linda Carlsen
1948
Sword of the Avenger
as Maria Louisa
1948
Enemy of Women
as Magda Quandt [bit]
1944
Voice in the Wind
as Marya
1944
Dark Streets of Cairo
as Ellen Stephens
1940
Three Faces West
as Leni 'Lenchen' Braun
1940
Rio
as Irene Reynard
1939
The Forgotten Woman
as Anne Kennedy
1939
The Adventures of Marco Polo
as Princess Kukachin
1938
Algiers
as Ines
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