Sonja Henie

. She is a registered Republican who appeared at the 1988 Republican Convention and sang the National Anthem. She died in 1969 of leukemia. Considered by most as the greatest female figure skater in history, she and her husband are buried on the hilltop overlooking the Henie-Onstad Museum. Despite several separations (she filed then withdrew a divorce petition in 2002), they remain married. Together with her husband, Niels Onstad, she founded the Henie-Onstad Art Centre at Høvikodden, near Oslo. Divorcing Cassidy, she married one-time comic Marty Ingels on November 13, 1977. Sonja Henie became an international superstar and an icon in her native Norway. Shirley and David both starred in The Partridge Family.

She then went on to an extensive film career, retiring in 1958. She married actor Jack Cassidy on August 5, 1956, with whom she had 3 sons, Shaun, Patrick and Ryan; David Cassidy became her stepson. She is credited with being the first to adopt the short skirt costume in figure skating, and the first to make use of dance choreography. She starred in several movies such as Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Music Man, and won an Academy Award as a girl corrupted by Burt Lancaster, who then takes revenge upon him in Elmer Gantry. She also won six consecutive European championships. Before starring in The Partridge Family, Shirley was already a famous singer and actress. She won her first of ten consecutive World Figure Skating Championships in 1927 at the age of fifteen, and her first Olympic gold medal the following year. An only child, she was named after Shirley Temple.

By the next Olympiad, she no longer needed to ask. Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934 in Charleroi, Pennsylvania) is an actress who starred in the television series The Partridge Family. She had earlier placed eighth in a field of eight at the 1924 Winter Olympics, at the age of eleven. During the 1924 program, she skated over to the side of the rink several times to ask her coach what to do next. Born in Oslo, Henie took the gold medal in the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Winter Olympics. Sonja Henie (April 8, 1912-October 12, 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater.