Gloria Henry
Gloria Henry was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States on April 2nd, 1923 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 101, Gloria Henry biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Gloria Eileen McEniry (born April 2, 1923), also known as Gloria Henry, is an American actress best known for her appearances as Alice Mitchell, Dennis' mother, from 1959 to 1963 on CBS family sitcom Dennis the Menace.
Early life
Henry was born on April 2, 1923, and he was named Gloria Eileen McEniry. She lived and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Garden District. She was educated at the Worcester Art Museum School in Massachusetts. Henry migrated to Los Angeles in her late teens and worked on a number of radio shows and commercials under the stage name Gloria Henry. The gossip, fashion, and sports were all on her minds. She has appeared in little theater groups as well.
Personal life
Henry was of Scottish and Irish descents. She was married to Robert D. Lamb between 1943 and 1948. Craig Ellwood married her in 1949; the couple divorced in 1977. Jeffrey, Adam, and Erin Ellwood were three children of the couple.
Henry died at her Los Angeles home on April 3, 2021, just one day after her 98th birthday.
Career
Henry, a child of an agent, moved to film work through Columbia Studios in 1946 and made her debut as the female lead in the horse racing film Sport of Kings (1947). She appeared in Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949), which starred Lucille Ball, as well as the western Rancho Notorious (1952) with Marlene Dietrich. Henry was also featured in three sports-themed stories; the football film Triple Threat (1948), the horse race tale Racing Luck (1948), and the William Bendix baseball comedy Kill the Umpire (1950).
The 1950s were a combination of B films and episodic television guest appearances, such as My Little Margie (1952) and Perry Mason's "The Case of the Restless Redhead" (1957). She appeared on the detective series The Files of Jeffrey Jones (1954), starring Don Haggerty, but she was kicked out of the film after she became pregnant. In an episode titled "The Pigeon," she appeared on The Abbott and Costello Show.
Henry landed the role in 1959, that of Dennis' mother "Alice Mitchell" on CBS comedy television series Dennis the Menace. Herbert Anderson co-starred Herbert Anderson as her husband, as well as young Jay North in the title role of Dennis. For four seasons before the show's cancellation in 1963, Henry portrayed sunny domesticity and maternal warmth.
After Dennis the Menace, Henry's career slowed drastically. She claimed in 1992 that she had been so identified with Alice Mitchell that she had become typecast in mother roles. She appeared in television movies assorted bit-part matrons, and in 1989, she appeared in a small capacity as an art-collecting society matron in Dallas' prime time soap opera.
In Her Minor Thing (2005), a romantic comedy directed by Walter Matthau's son, Henry returned to the big screen for a short time. She attended film festivals and nostalgia conventions more often. Mary-Elizabeth Clinch appeared on the Parks and Recreation episode "Campaign Shake-Up" in 2012.