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Actress, Sigrid Gurie, was born Sigrid Gurie Haukelid on May 18, 1911 in Brooklyn, NY. Gurie died at the age of 58 on Aug 14, 1969 in Mexico City, Mexico .

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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 made a sensation in the early 1940s when the press found out she was born in Brooklyn and not in Norway.

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). Strangly enough, he promoted her a Norwegian goddess but made her an oriental princess teamed with Gary Cooper.

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