Name	Sigrid Gurie (Sigrid Gurie Haukelid)
Date of Birth	May 18, 1911
Birthplace	Brooklyn, New York, USA
Star Sign	Taurus
Died	August 14, 1969 (Aged 58)
Location of Death	Mexico City, Mexico
Cause of Death	Embolism
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actress
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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).

Imported to Hollywood by Samuel Goldwyn

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.

Sigrid and her family went back to Norway in 1912 and were not too far away from The Titanic when it sank.

Sigrid Gurie was a very talented artist and devoted her time in San Miguel Allende to painting and drawing and to her friends who adored her.

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