- Born
- Died
- Birth nameSigrid Gurie Haukelid
- Nickname
- The Norwegian Garbo
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Sigrid Gurie was a very talented artist and devoted her time in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, to painting and drawing and to her friends who adored her. She was a fine human being and well loved and missed after her death. She had been estranged from her brother for many years, as his treatment of her had been cold and even cruel.
Although she was married three times she had no fond feelings for her ex-husbands. She credited the strain of living in Hollywood at that time and the difficulties of her failed marriages as contributing to her health problems.
- IMDb mini biography by: Lydia L. Kramer
- SpousesLynn Abbott(1958 - 1961) (divorced)Dr. Laurence Christian Spangard(August 6, 1939 - 1949) (divorced)Thomas W Stewart(1935 - July 18, 1939) (divorced)
- RelativesKnut Haukelid(Sibling)
- Sigrid Gurie came to Hollywood in 1936 as a newly discovered talent whom Samuel Goldwyn introduced in the 1937 production of The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938). Strangely enough, he promoted her as a Norwegian goddess but made her an Oriental princess teamed with Gary Cooper.
- In a strange twist of fate, her twin brother Knut suffered an embolism in Oslo in 1969 after learning of his sister's death, also from an embolism in Mexico City. He recovered and died in 1994. Knut Haukelid gained fame as a war hero. A leader of the Norwegian Resistance during WWII, his story was eventually told in the movie The Heroes of Telemark (1965). He was portrayed by Richard Harris (as Knut Straud).
- She created a sensation in the early 1940s after the press found out she was born in Brooklyn and not in Norway.
- Twin sister of Knut Haukelid.
- Sigrid and her family went back to Norway in 1912 and were not far from the Titanic when it sank.
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