Imported to Hollywood by Samuel Goldwyn
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 and her family went back to Norway in 1912 and were not too far away from The Titanic when it sank.
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.
Twin sister to Knut Haukelid.