Gale Henry

Gale Henry

Born: April 15, 1893
Died: June 17, 1972
in Bear Valley - California - USA

Movies for Gale Henry...

Luncheon at Twelve
Title: Luncheon at Twelve
Character: Mrs. Greta Van Geldt
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Charley unwittingly becomes a house painter.
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Mr. Bride
Title: Mr. Bride
Character: Mrs. Cecil's Daughter
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.
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Now We'll Tell One
Title: Now We'll Tell One
Character: Mortified Vocalist
Released: November 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Charley unwittingly puts on a belt that has the power to change the wearer's personality.
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Skip the Maloo!
Title: Skip the Maloo!
Character: Miss Henry
Released: September 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Charlie Chase, playing the Duke of Chasewick, but hired by Dell Henderson to play himself, and disabuse his wife and daughter of any fondness for nobility.
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Darkened Rooms
Title: Darkened Rooms
Character: Madame Silvara
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium working in cahoots with genuine clairvoyant Emory Jago (Neil Hamilton). The plotline is secondary; the film's main purpose was to emulate the methods of such professional "de-bunkers" as Mrs. Harry Houdini by exposing the various tricks of the spiritualist's trade.
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The Big Squawk
Title: The Big Squawk
Character: Leader of Girls
Released: May 25, 1929
Type: Movie
Shy Charley tries to win his girl.
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Ruby Lips
Title: Ruby Lips
Released: January 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Ruby Lips is a comedy short
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The Love Doctor
Title: The Love Doctor
Character: Lucy
Released: January 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Gerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her son, Bud Woodbridge, whose malady Sumner diagnoses as "love sickness."
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All Parts
Title: All Parts
Released: October 27, 1928
Type: Movie
All Parts is a silent comedy short
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The Wild West Show
Title: The Wild West Show
Character: Zella
Released: May 20, 1928
Type: Movie
"Rodeo" Bill is a hard-nosed, fun-loving cowboy who likes a lot of action and will go out of his way to create some if things are going too dull to suit him. He attends a circus/wild west show and stirs up some trouble with both the locals and the troupers but, after seeing Ruth Henson, the daughter of the show's operator/owner, he decides to join up and travel with the circus. He also manges to take care of some trouble not of his doing.
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Long Hose
Title: Long Hose
Released: February 17, 1928
Type: Movie
Jack Duffy had two skills that helped make him the lead in a nice series of short comedies in the 1920s: the usual ability to take one of the bone-breaking falls that slapstick called for and the ability to make himself up as an old coot, which gave him a nice character and made the pratfalls more impressive. In this one he manages to get himself tangled up coming down the pole at the fire station -- very amusing.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Lucille LaRue
Released: August 15, 1927
Type: Movie
When a pretty small-town girl with no talent goes to Hollywood, what could go wrong? She could get Stranded!
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What Women Did for Me
Title: What Women Did for Me
Character: School Secretary aka The Keyhole Buzzard
Released: August 14, 1927
Type: Movie
A girl-shy professor runs into trouble at -- a ladies' seminary.
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Bigger and Better Blondes
Title: Bigger and Better Blondes
Released: May 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Charley is mistakenly assumed to be a thief
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A One Mama Man
Title: A One Mama Man
Character: Miss Glutz
Released: March 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Charley Chase on a boat with girls.
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Two-Time Mama
Title: Two-Time Mama
Character: Nora aka Snoopy, the Maid
Released: January 29, 1927
Type: Movie
The story involves various misunderstandings and entanglements that occur between two married couples, the Browns (Glenn Tryon & Vivien Oakland) and the Dazzles (Tyler Brooke & Anita Garvin). The two couples have apartments across the hall from one another, and all four plan to attend a costume ball together. But after each husband expresses unhappiness with his wife's costume the women angrily refuse to go to the party. The two husbands decide to go "stag" and pick up dates, but when Mrs. Brown changes her mind about attending, and Mr. Dazzle and Mr. Brown switch costumes, mix-ups result.
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What! No Spinach?
Title: What! No Spinach?
Character: Landlady
Released: August 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Horace Prune’s uncle died without any notice leaving his fortune to him, providing that he is married within forty-eight hours. Horace is a woman hater, to make matters more complicated.
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Mighty Like a Moose
Title: Mighty Like a Moose
Character: Wallflower at Party
Released: July 18, 1926
Type: Movie
After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.
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A Fraternity Mixup
Title: A Fraternity Mixup
Released: March 7, 1926
Type: Movie
A group of girls in al all-girl college dormitory spend a wild night among thieves, cross-dressing boys and wild animals like a man-eating gorilla. Blue Ribbon comedy produced by Joe Rock, directed by Percy Pembroke, starring Alice Ardell and Gale Henry.
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Galloping Ghosts
Title: Galloping Ghosts
Released: January 1, 1926
Type: Movie
A comic frightfest featuring Ton o' Fun.
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His Wooden Wedding
Title: His Wooden Wedding
Character: Woman on Ship
Released: December 19, 1925
Type: Movie
A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend, gives him an anonymous note, stating that the bride has a wooden leg.
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Déclassé
Title: Déclassé
Character: Timmins
Released: April 11, 1925
Type: Movie
The last of the impetuous Varicks, Lady Helen Haden is married to Sir Bruce Haden, a brute who treats her shamefully. She falls in love with Ned Thayer, a young American, but refuses to divorce her husband because of the attendant scandal and disgrace. Sir Bruce gains possession of a love letter written to Ned by Lady Helen and divorces her. Ned goes to Africa, and Lady Helen comes to the United States, where she encounters Rudolph Solomon, an art collector who wants her to become his mistress. The noblewoman at first refuses, but when her money runs out, she agrees to the proposal and attends a party at his home. Ned, who has learned of the divorce, comes looking for Helen and meets her at Solomon's party. Lady Helen is so humiliated and ashamed that she rushes from the house and throws herself in front of an automobile.
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New Lives for Old
Title: New Lives for Old
Character: Berthe
Released: February 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Olympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy and provides valuable intelligence information during World War I by winning the confidence of a German officer. Hugh Warren is the American soldier who falls for Olympe. She allows him to believe she is a simple peasant and reveals nothing of her career as a spy. The two fall in love and are married, but the villainous German agent De Montinrich reveals to her husband's family that she is a tawdry club dancer. Unable to reveal her role in espionage, Olympe is ostracized by her friends and family. When the French government honors Olympe for her wartime bravery, her family no longer considers her a blemish on their sterling reputation.
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Merton of the Movies
Title: Merton of the Movies
Character: Tessie Kearns
Released: November 3, 1924
Type: Movie
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.
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Open All Night
Title: Open All Night
Character: Isabelle Fèvre
Released: October 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabelle Fevre (Gale Henry) suggests that Edmond go to the bicycle races and stay out all night. Then she takes Therese there and introduces her to manly Petit Mathieu, one of the racers (Maurice B. Flynn). Since he has just quarreled with his sweetheart, Lea (Jetta Goudal), he is glad to have Therese's attention and offers to run away with her after he wins the six-day race. Lea, meanwhile, is spending her time with Edmond. Therese eventually decides she doesn't care for brutes like Mathieu, and Edmond gains a temper and wins his wife back. Lea and Mathieu are reunited, while Isabelle goes back to helping her own alcoholic sweetheart, Igor (Raymond Griffith), break into the movies.
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The Fire Patrol
Title: The Fire Patrol
Character: Alice Masters
Released: August 14, 1924
Type: Movie
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Sherlock's Home
Title: Sherlock's Home
Character: Sherlock's Wife
Released: May 13, 1924
Type: Movie
Gladys falls for a prizefighter who has invited his entire hometown to watch his fight in New York City. However, he gets crazy jealous when he sees Gladys at the fight sitting next to Jimmy. After the bout is over, he sets out for the hotel to teach Jimmy a lesson.
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One Day in Hollywood
Title: One Day in Hollywood
Released: April 15, 1924
Type: Movie
A couple (Hank Mann and Gale Henry) head to the beach. She spends her time with her friends and he spends time with a group of bathing beauties. Complications arise.
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Held to Answer
Title: Held to Answer
Character: The Maid
Released: November 22, 1923
Type: Movie
John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and failing to win him back she tries to ruin his reputation. Hampstead is accused of stealing some jewelry though actually he is protecting the scapegrace brother of his current sweetheart, Bessie.
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Tea- With a Kick!
Title: Tea- With a Kick!
Character: Hesperis McGowan
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open up a tearoom in a fancy hotel, saving all the profits to pay the legal fees for her father who has been unjustly jailed. Mr. Day's rival has embroiled him in a crooked stock deal and made him appear to be the guilty party. Meanwhile, Bonnie is in the midst of a romantic dilemma; her Aunt Pearl wants her to wed Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie much prefers helpful young lawyer Art Binger.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Gale Henry
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
Title: Quincy Adams Sawyer
Character: Samanthey
Released: December 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
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Night Life in Hollywood
Title: Night Life in Hollywood
Character: Carrie Powell
Released: November 15, 1922
Type: Movie
A picture depicting the engrossing adventures of a small town youth in Hollywood and showing the intimate home life of some of the screen's greatest stars.
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Her First Flame
Title: Her First Flame
Character: Lizzie Hap
Released: May 21, 1920
Type: Movie
Thirty years in the future (when women are primary income-earners and men are stay-at-home housekeepers) Miss Hap is elected Fire Chief and leads her crew of firefighters to rescue a couple trapped in a burning building.
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Pants
Title: Pants
Released: December 18, 1919
Type: Movie
Gale Henry gets hired as the cook at a girls’ college.
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The Slavey
Title: The Slavey
Released: December 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Miss Henry is the maid-of-all-work at a hotel. She cleans everything, operates the elevator, cooks and serves the meal and spots series regular, Milburn Morante apparently strangling a young woman in her room.
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The Detectress
Title: The Detectress
Character: Lizzie
Released: June 22, 1919
Type: Movie
Detective Lizzie sets out to recover the stolen plans for an invention.
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The Wild Woman
Title: The Wild Woman
Character: The Wild Woman
Released: March 1, 1919
Type: Movie
The Wild Woman is a silent comedy
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Cash
Title: Cash
Released: January 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Cash is a 1919 silent comedy short.
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The Masked Marvels
Title: The Masked Marvels
Character: Gale
Released: October 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Cook Gale Henry and butler Milton Sims are arguing in the kitchen about who would make the best detective, until the lady of the house comes in to see about the delay in dinner and fires them both. Freed from their domestic duties, they are at liberty to become detectives.
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When Damon Fell for Pythias
Title: When Damon Fell for Pythias
Character: Calanthe - a Roman Matron
Released: January 11, 1917
Type: Movie
The emperor issues a counterblast against liquor and the "wets" try to kill him. Damon saves Pythias from the headsman's axe and the lives of both are spared.
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A Shadowed Shadow
Title: A Shadowed Shadow
Character: Housekeeper
Released: November 4, 1916
Type: Movie
A 1916 Joker Comedy starring Lillian Peacock
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The Inspector's Double
Title: The Inspector's Double
Character: Matilda
Released: September 30, 1916
Type: Movie
It was all because John was the image of Frank, the health inspector. John lost his purse and Frank found it. Then he went to the former's house and Matilda thought her hubby was crazy because he did not recognize her. Frank had forgotten his badge, and so could not prove his identity, and was taken to the insane asylum. But Bess discovered that Frank left his badge and went to the first house on his list to give it to him. At the corner she met John looking for the wallet. He liked her and said that he would take her to lunch. When he arrived home he thought that Matilda was crazy, and sent to the asylum for help.
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She Wrote a Play and Played It
Title: She Wrote a Play and Played It
Character: Miss Exeter Scribbles
Released: August 13, 1916
Type: Movie
Gale Henry, at that time famous as big-nosed, lugubrious-faced purveyor of silent screen slapstick. Here as a prominent villager too interested writing a play to be bothered with lovers. When a wandering director arrives in town, learns of her play and agrees to produce it for her, with the author in the leading role, she is delighted. But the play proves a frost.
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Bashful Charley's Proposal
Title: Bashful Charley's Proposal
Character: The Widow
Released: July 1, 1916
Type: Movie
The widow lives in a houseboat near one of the beaches. Charley is her devoted lover, but his bashfulness prevents him from proposing. She has a daughter, Lilly, who is visiting in a nearby town. She accepts Heinie subject to her mother's approval. The mother cannot see it and wires her daughter that she cannot marry the young man unless he shows her $5,000. She orders the girl home. Heinie says that he has a brother living near the widow's houseboat and that he will accompany Lilly home so as to be on the ground. Heinie and Charley are very much alike, in fact, the only difference between the brothers is in the way in which they wear their mustaches.
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A Millionaire for a Minute
Title: A Millionaire for a Minute
Character: The Village Schoolmarm
Released: October 16, 1915
Type: Movie
Gale, the Village Schoolmarm, wants to marry Ezekial Brown, but her Uncle objects to the match.
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Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry
Title: Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry
Character: Lady Baffles
Released: October 14, 1915
Type: Movie
This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the temperance question, siding with the dry element. On the refusal of the Governor to sign a bill in favor of the liquor interest, the political boss tries to force the executive to his will. The Governor, after a series of thrilling experiences, thwarts the efforts of the politicians. The latter calls on Lady Baffles, who impersonates the Governor's wife and secures the executive's signature to the bill. Detective Duck, however, captures the politicians in a clever manner and beats Lady Baffles at her own game. (Moving Picture World Synopsis)
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Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Baffles Aids Cupid
Title: Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Baffles Aids Cupid
Character: Lady Baffles
Released: July 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Banker Shultz has not had a vacation for over thirty years. His doctor advises a rest or a breakdown will soon result. But it is impossible for Shultz to leave the affairs of the bank a moment. At last he hits on a great scheme. That of getting his friend, Detective Duck, to impersonate him.
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Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery
Title: Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery
Character: Lady Baffles
Released: May 27, 1915
Type: Movie
First episode in the Lady Baffles and Detective Duck one-reel comedy series. The city is being terrorized by a mysterious female Raffles. At last, in desperation, the chief of police sends for his friend, the famous sleuth, Detective Duck. While these two are sitting in conference, Raffles, in her search for loot, enters the home of Mrs. Gotta Millun. Raffles' eyes sparkle as she takes in with delight the rich Oriental knick-knacks and furnishings. Mrs. Millun is a connoisseur. Raffles hides under a table when Mrs. Millun comes in. Mrs. Millun has just received a gift from her brother in far-off India. It is a jewel case containing eight beautiful and rare pearls as large as hen eggs. In a note accompanying them her brother explains that the jewels were part of the loot of the Britishers when they raided Oski Wow Wow, and that they were taken from a famous Indian Princess who had sworn eternal vengeance on all who thereafter possessed them.
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Universal Ike Junior Is Kept from Being an Actor
Title: Universal Ike Junior Is Kept from Being an Actor
Released: June 9, 1914
Type: Movie
When a small traveling theatrical troupe stages a production in town, Ike is suddenly "bitten" by the acting bug and determines to become a famous actor.
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When Universal Ike Set
Title: When Universal Ike Set
Character: The Wealthy Widow
Released: April 21, 1914
Type: Movie
Ika marries a widow, figuring he's set for life. Unfortunately for him, the first thing she does is put him to work. Ike hatches a scheme with his doctor to fake illness to get out of work, but his new wife has planned for that, too.
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Universal Ike Has His Ups and Downs
Title: Universal Ike Has His Ups and Downs
Released: April 7, 1914
Type: Movie
John de Rockingchair, oil magnate, is a suitor for the hand of Louise. The young lady, however, has long since decided that she will not marry any man who has money. Aside from this she loves Universal Ike.