ABSTRACT
By all accounts Norwegian figure skating star Sonja Henie morphed relatively smoothly into a movie star for Twentieth Century Fox. Unlike her foreign-born contemporary Hedy Lamarr, who carried with her to Hollywood a scandalous past that had to be sanitized and recuperated, Henie brought to the screen a secure public persona founded on her three Olympic gold medals and her ten world figure skating titles. Her skating talent was the defining feature of her stardom; when she had the opportunity to commemorate her career in the cement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, she left impressions of her skate blades as well as of her hands and feet.
