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Title: Sonja Henie and Tyrone Power
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1899-1989.
Skating star Sonja Henie and then-boyfriend, actor Tyrone Power, take in the fights. One of the first female superstar athletes, Henie won Olympic gold medals in 1928, 1932, and 1936 before she retired to concentrate on films and her ice show. The frozen pond equivalent of Esther Williams, she starred in such films as "Thin Ice," "Happy Landing," and "Iceland." In the early 1950s, Henie was instrumental in popularizing the Zamboni machine, an innovative (and time-saving) ice-resurfacing machine invented and manufactured by Frank Zamboni at his Iceland rink in Paramount. Photograph dated May 29, 1937.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048822
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3688
CARL0000052903
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17333
Subject: Henie, Sonja,--1912-1969
Power, Tyrone,--1914-1958
Skaters--Norway
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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