The Golden Girl
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Gangsteroctopus — 17 years ago(July 31, 2008 07:15 PM)
Hitler was a monster LONG before 1939, and this was fairly apparent to most moral human beings on the planet at the time. The beginning of Henie's Nazi controversy began in 1936 when she greeted Hitler at a skating exhibition with a Nazi salute. And because she had an autographed portrait of Hitler prominently displayed in her family's home in Norway, it was spared confiscation and looting by the Nazi invaders; in addition, Henie conspicuously avoided publicly supporting the Norwegian resistance against the Nazi occupiers. That's why, for obvious reasons, a lot of Norwegians and Norwegian-Americans still consider her to be a Quisling.
Again, let me emphasize that I genuinely enjoy her movies and watch them without letting any of these unpleasant truths about her political affiliations affect my appreciation of her considerable talents. -
rsledz957 — 17 years ago(July 31, 2008 11:49 PM)
I would like to have seen you go through that period without fear and trepidation that your home would be next on the chopping blockl along with all your family members. Were there Saints and Weaker men and women? Sure. I wonder who we would count ourselves among? Edith Stein or Sonja Henie?
Ps. You have shown no documentation of your accusations anyway. So until you do, I will consider it mere gossip and fiction.
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johnrupertg — 14 years ago(April 20, 2011 12:24 AM)
rsledz957: Proffer is to offer so let's not play word games like you play political games. Ms. Henie a talented and pretty skater. A Nazi sympathizer or apologist most definitely one of them. Now as we do in Britain prove me wrong.
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johnrupertg — 14 years ago(April 20, 2011 05:50 PM)
rsledz957:
I will go out on a limb and say that she was a Nazi sympathizer!
She would have to take me to the High Court to prove defamation. That I defamed her and the allegations are false. If she could prove that then I would be on the hook. I do not have to prove a thing. -
rsledz957 — 14 years ago(April 20, 2011 08:03 PM)
Well there is no court and she's dead so I will call your bluff and raise you one by saying that without any evidenciary (GOOGLED) information against her, she is innocent until proven guilty. So.. under PUBLIC COURT of opinion, you are causing yourself a laughing stock.
And yeah.. you have to prove something before you start a rant. Otherwise no one will ever take you seriously.
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rchester-1 — 14 years ago(April 21, 2011 11:45 PM)
The name of the book is Queen of ice, Queen of shadows. I bought a hardcover edition for about 3 dollars at amozon.com. The book was written by her brother and gives a lot of insight into what is described as a split persoality he saw in his sister Sonjia. The book was very interesting and well worth reading..
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killahbillah1 — 13 years ago(November 13, 2012 03:06 AM)
Poor actor and not very intelligent.
When she was asked if she was a nazi she said: "Nazi- smazi. I don't even know what a nazi is". Just really, really, really dumb.
But yeah she will always be a drunken quisling. Rot in hell, bitch! -
tylerliermann-237-511530 — 11 years ago(December 05, 2014 11:03 PM)
Sonja was a show biz child that went into adulthood. Like many of them, they learn so much of their craft that they do not learn so much about the outside world like most people. I have read Queen of Ice, while he makes some interesting points, but much of it (like some critics pointed out) were grossly exaggerated and he was writing off anger that Sonja didn't leave him or his family any of her estate. A few said, that "that was never the Sonja I knew."
I think Sonja was great for her time but made into a bigger deal than what really was. She had a great run on the motion picture circut but it went as quickly as it came and is meh compared to the other movies of the time. She had to have had an iron fist, anyone does in show biz (more so back then) but especially a girl. She was not going to be some backroom casting couch. -
RemiRoyer33 — 14 years ago(July 10, 2011 03:39 AM)
Cut the crap, I know this will sound sexist but I don't careshe was a woman who probably wasn't very political. To her Hitler was just a man of high status since he was the leader of a major western nation. Women in general adore men of high status, if she was friendly toward Hitler it was for this reason and this reason only. To politicize this and try to turn her into some huge Nazi is disgusting propaganda.
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jellyree — 10 years ago(December 06, 2015 01:46 PM)
My father had some contact with her. Undoubtedly he was a flunky working in an arena where she was doing some skating exhibit.
You know how you can judge a person by how they treat the wait staff in a restaurant?
Let's just say dad found her to be an unpleasant person.
On the flip side, my dad always thought the world of Little Jimmy Dickens.
