Henny Backus

Stage Actress

Henny Backus was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on March 21st, 1911 and is the Stage Actress. At the age of 93, Henny Backus 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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Other Names / Nick Names
Henrietta Backus
Date of Birth
March 21, 1911
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Death Date
Dec 9, 2004 (age 93)
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Profession
Film Actor, Stage Actor, Television Actor
Henny Backus Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

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Henny Backus Religion, Education, and Hobbies
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Henny Backus Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Nat Karson, Jim Backus, ​ ​(m. 1943; died 1989)​
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Henny Backus Life

Henny Backus (March 21, 1911 – December 9, 2004) was a Broadway showgirl in the 1930s whose stage credits include Orson Welles's Horse Eats Hat.

She was the wife of actor and comedian Jim Backus.

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Henny Backus Career

Career

Henrietta Kaye was born in Brooklyn on March 21, 1911. She studied sculpture at Cooper Union, but she preferred performing in theatre and appeared in Broadway musicals during the 1930s. Bee in the Broadway play Chrysalis (1932). Shenriette Kaye, who was a participant of the Federal Theatre Project, was a member of Henriette Kaye. "A leggy redhead with a droll sense of humor," she co-starred Welles, Joseph Cotten, Hiram Sherman, and Arlene Francis in Orson Welles' Project 891, a bizarre farce co-starring Welles, Joseph Cotten, Hiram Sherman, and Arlene Francis. 182 Nat Karson, her husband, conceived the scenes and costumes.

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In 1943, Kaye married actor and comedian Jim Backus. The couple co-starred in the 1960s television series Blondie, and they appeared together on Gilligan's Island once in the sitcom's second-season episode "Gilligan's Mother-In-Law" (1965). In a season-five episode of The Love Boat, she appeared too with her husband.

Henny and Jim Backus co-authored several amusing books, including What Are You Doing After the Orgy? (1962) Only When I Laugh (1965), Backus Strikes Back (1984), and Forgive Us Our Digressions (1988). Henny wrote Care for the Caretaker (1999), chronicling her husband's struggle with Parkinson's disease and recommending practical solutions for those who face such difficulties.

In 1989, Jim Backus suffered with pneumonia complications. Henny died at the age of 93 after a string of strokes a year ago. In Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, she was buried next to her husband.

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