13 Facts About Gloria Henry

Gloria Henry lived and grew up on the edge of the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Gloria Henry was educated at the Worcester Art Museum School in Massachusetts.

Gloria Henry had featured roles in the romantic comedy Miss Grant Takes Richmond that starred Lucille Ball, and the western Rancho Notorious with Marlene Dietrich.

Gloria Henry appeared in three sports-themed stories; the football film Triple Threat, the horse race tale Racing Luck, and the William Bendix baseball comedy Kill the Umpire.

Gloria Henry was a regular on the detective series The Files of Jeffrey Jones, starring Don Haggerty, but was written out of the show when she became pregnant.

Gloria Henry appeared on The Abbott and Costello Show in an episode entitled "The Pigeon".

In 1959, Gloria Henry landed the role for which she would become most well-known, that of Dennis' mother "Alice Mitchell" on the CBS comedy television series Dennis the Menace.

Gloria Henry portrayed sunny domesticity and maternal warmth for four seasons until the series' cancellation in 1963.

Gloria Henry appeared occasionally in TV movies playing assorted bit-part matrons, and in 1989, she played a small role as an art-collecting society matron in the prime time soap opera Dallas.

Gloria Henry returned to the big screen in a brief role in Her Minor Thing, a romantic comedy directed by Charles Matthau, Walter Matthau's son.

Gloria Henry was married to Robert D Lamb between 1943 and 1948.

Gloria Henry wed architect Craig Ellwood in 1949; they divorced in 1977.

Gloria Henry died at her home in Los Angeles, on April 3,2021, one day after her 98th birthday.