Gloria Henry — the actress best known for playing Alice Mitchell, mother of Dennis Mitchell on the 1959-63 sitcom “Dennis the Menace” — died on Saturday. She was 98.
“It is with great sadness to let of all my dear and amazing mother’s fans know that she passed peacefully,” her son, Adam, wrote in a Facebook post. “Please raise a glass and a toast to our beautiful mother Gloria Henry for a life well lived.”
Born Gloria Eileen McEniry on April 2, 1923 in New Orleans, she began her acting career in the early 1940s after moving to Los Angeles as a teenager, where she adopted her stage name, Gloria Henry. In 1947, she made her film debut co-starring in the horse racing drama “Sport of Kings.” Other credits from her early career included two films with Gene Autry — “The Strawberry Roan” and “Riders in the Sky” — as well as the Lucille Ball romantic comedy...
“It is with great sadness to let of all my dear and amazing mother’s fans know that she passed peacefully,” her son, Adam, wrote in a Facebook post. “Please raise a glass and a toast to our beautiful mother Gloria Henry for a life well lived.”
Born Gloria Eileen McEniry on April 2, 1923 in New Orleans, she began her acting career in the early 1940s after moving to Los Angeles as a teenager, where she adopted her stage name, Gloria Henry. In 1947, she made her film debut co-starring in the horse racing drama “Sport of Kings.” Other credits from her early career included two films with Gene Autry — “The Strawberry Roan” and “Riders in the Sky” — as well as the Lucille Ball romantic comedy...
- 4/5/2021
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Gloria Henry, who is best known for her role as the mother on the classic 1960s comedy Dennis the Menace has died. She was 98.
The actress died on April 3, according to multiple media reports. Her son, Adam Ellwood posted photos of Henry on his Facebook page, paying tribute to her.
Henry was born Gloria Eileen McEniry in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 2, 1923. She moved to Los Angeles in her late teens and worked on radio shows, commercials and performed in theater groups.
She made her movie debut in 1947 in Sport of Kings and went on to appear in Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) alongside Lucille Ball as well as the western Rancho Notorious (1952) with Marlene Dietrich. Her other movie credits The Strawberry Roan (1948) Triple Threat (1948), Racing Luck (1948), Riders in the Sky (1949), and Kill the Umpire (1950).
She appeared in TV series such as My Little Margie, Father Knows Best, Perry Mason and The Life of Riley.
The actress died on April 3, according to multiple media reports. Her son, Adam Ellwood posted photos of Henry on his Facebook page, paying tribute to her.
Henry was born Gloria Eileen McEniry in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 2, 1923. She moved to Los Angeles in her late teens and worked on radio shows, commercials and performed in theater groups.
She made her movie debut in 1947 in Sport of Kings and went on to appear in Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) alongside Lucille Ball as well as the western Rancho Notorious (1952) with Marlene Dietrich. Her other movie credits The Strawberry Roan (1948) Triple Threat (1948), Racing Luck (1948), Riders in the Sky (1949), and Kill the Umpire (1950).
She appeared in TV series such as My Little Margie, Father Knows Best, Perry Mason and The Life of Riley.
- 4/5/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Talk about some freaky deaky stuff going down. I don’t think this has ever happened before, but it has — the entire previous cast of Charlie Matthau’s adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s “Freaky Deaky” has all been replaced with an all-new cast. Out are Matt Dillion, Brendan Fraser and Katie Cassidy … and in are Billy Burke, Christian Slater, and Breanne Racano (below, in order) as their replacements. New addition Roger Bart has also officially signed up. “Freaky Deaky”, based on crime novelist Leonard’s novel of the same name, is a 1970s period film that willl follow Burke’s character, an Lapd bomb squad officer, who uncovers a plot being planned by ex-hippies to be played by Slater and Racano. Like most of Leonard’s stories, expect plenty of crime, quirk, and quirky crime in “Freaky Deaky”. Matthau (“Her Minor Thing”) will adapt and direct...
- 7/12/2011
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
What do the films Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Jackie Brown, Be Cool, The Big Bounce and Killshot all have in common? Well I'll tell you - they have all been adapted from books written by Elmore Leonard... and now there's another to add to the list, as Walter Matthau's son Charles Matthau (Her Minor Thing) is writing and directing an adaptation of Freaky Deaky, and William H. Macy (Fargo) is attached to star.
It's not clear yet which role in the crime thriller Macy will take on, but a synopsis of the book goes as follows: Leonard starts and ends his latest page turner with a bang, and between explosions we meet a vivid group of characters who are mainly veterans of the youth rebellion of the 1960s. Chief among them are Chris Mankowski, 38-year-old Detroit police sergeant, newly transferred from the bomb squad to sex crimes; Woody Ricks,...
It's not clear yet which role in the crime thriller Macy will take on, but a synopsis of the book goes as follows: Leonard starts and ends his latest page turner with a bang, and between explosions we meet a vivid group of characters who are mainly veterans of the youth rebellion of the 1960s. Chief among them are Chris Mankowski, 38-year-old Detroit police sergeant, newly transferred from the bomb squad to sex crimes; Woody Ricks,...
- 9/14/2010
- Screenrush
The books of Elmore Leonard have been source material for a wide variety of films good and bad, from Out of Sight, Rum Punch (aka Jackie Brown) and Get Shorty, to losers like Be Cool, Killshot and The Big Bounce. Now one more is being added to the pile, as Walter Matthau's son Charles Matthau is preparing to direct an adaptation of Freaky Deaky, with William H. Macy starring. Variety broke the initial project news, and Deadline told of Macy's casting. I can't even begin to call how this one might land. I haven't seen Charles Matthau's other directorial effort Her Minor Thing, so I've got no basis to even guess here. (He's also writing the script.) And with the Leonard adaptation track record, which is pretty much as 50/50 as the mentions above would indicate, I'm not going to hazard a guess. Freaky Deaky is one of the...
- 9/14/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Elmore Leonard’s work can be a tough cookie to crack on screen. For every great example (Out of Sight), there’s a failure (The Big Bounce), and the field in between is littered with the good to the dodgy. Now Walter Matthau’s son Charlie will be hoping to score a winner, wrangling William H Macy to star in Freaky Deaky.Written by Leonard in 1988, Deaky follows a pair of former radical types who specialised in bomb making reuniting for a big payday job. And then there’s the close-to-retirement bomb squad officer who has to tack them down.Matthau, who also penned the script, isn’t exactly known for his crime drama work: so far his output has been limited to virginity-centric rom-com Her Minor Thing starring Estrella Warren (which, weirdly, this writer caught two minutes of on cable just a few days ago) and upcoming jazz musical Baby-o,...
- 9/13/2010
- EmpireOnline
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