Gloria Henry, Actress Who Played Alice Mitchell on ‘Dennis the Threat,’ Dies at 98

Gloria Henry — the actress most attention-grabbing known for taking half in Alice Mitchell, mom of Dennis Mitchell on the 1959-63 sitcom “Dennis the Threat” — died on Saturday. She used to be 98.

“It is with huge unhappiness to let of all my dear and incredible mom’s fans know that she passed peacefully,” her son, Adam, wrote in a Facebook put up. “Please elevate a pitcher and a toast to our shining mom Gloria Henry for a existence correctly lived.”

Born Gloria Eileen McEniry on April 2, 1923 in Contemporary Orleans, she began her acting occupation in the early 1940s after transferring to Los Angeles as a teen, 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 occupation incorporated two films with Gene Autry — “The Strawberry Roan” and “Riders in the Sky” — moreover to the Lucille Ball romantic comedy “Omit Grant Takes Richmond” and Fritz Lang’s “Rancho Infamous,” on the side of quite rather a lot of B-film and tv appearances throughout the 1950s.

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She landed the role of Alice Mitchell on “Dennis the Threat,” CBS’s sitcom in conserving with the popular sketch, in 1959 and remained on the present throughout its total walk. Following the present’s cancellation, Henry persevered to act sporadically, making occasional TV and film appearances. Her final credit score is the 2005 film “Her Minor Thing.”

Henry used to be married to Robert D. Lamb from 1943 to 1948, and to Craig Ellwood from 1949 to 1977. She had three formative years.