Gale Henry

Acting

Gale Henry

Born 1893-04-15 · Bear Valley, California, USA

Gale Preston Henry (April 15, 1893 – June 17, 1972) was an American actress, comedian and animal trainer known primarily for her work in silent film.

Acting credits

Stranded poster
10.0

When a pretty small-town girl with no talent goes to Hollywood, what could go wrong? She could get Stranded!

Stranded

1927

Hollywood poster
9.0

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...

Hollywood

1923

No artwork available
8.0

All Parts is a silent comedy short

All Parts

1928

His Wooden Wedding poster
7.1

A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend gives him an anonymous note stating that the bride has a wooden leg.

His Wooden Wedding

1925

Night Life in Hollywood poster
7.0

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.

Night Life in Hollywood

1922

The Wild West Show poster
10.0

"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.

The Wild West Show

1928

Sherlock's Home poster
4.8

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.

Sherlock's Home

1924

Luncheon at Twelve poster
9.0

Charley unwittingly becomes a house painter.

Luncheon at Twelve

1933

Open All Night poster
8.5

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.

Open All Night

1924

Merton of the Movies poster
8.0

A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out. This film is lost.

Merton of the Movies

1924

Bigger and Better Blondes poster
8.0

Following a jewelry store robbery, Charley becomes the prime suspect due to his flashy antics and accidental collaborations with the true perpetrators.

Bigger and Better Blondes

1927

A Fraternity Mixup poster
8.0

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.

A Fraternity Mixup

1926

Quincy Adams Sawyer poster
10.0

Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.

Quincy Adams Sawyer

1922

Tea- With a Kick! poster
10.0

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.

Tea- With a Kick!

1923

Darkened Rooms poster
6.6

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.

Darkened Rooms

1929

The Love Doctor poster
10.0

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."

The Love Doctor

1929

Universal Ike Junior Is Kept from Being an Actor poster
7.0

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.

Universal Ike Junior Is Kept from Being an Actor

1914

What! No Spinach? poster
10.0

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.

What! No Spinach?

1926

No artwork available
7.0

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.

Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery

1915

Skip the Maloo! poster
7.0

When a Duke comes to town, a woman wants to fix him up with her pretty daughter. Her father objects and tries to prevent a romance, with comic results.

Skip the Maloo!

1931

Who Done It? poster
NR

Gale goes on a dream date with an actor to the movies, much to the ire of her jealous husband.

Who Done It?

1917

Soup to Nuts poster
NR

Henry is expecting the new cook and when Sally, his wife's sister, appears, he immediately shows her the kitchen and orders her to serve food. When Henry's wife learns this she fears to present him as her husband, commands him to masquerade as the butler and calls in a friend to pose as her husband. The "butler" puts soap into the soup with the result that the sister-in-law and the other man become ill. When fire breaks out in the house the sister-in-law is trapped in her room and Bill thinks the terrible heat he feels is the result of fever from his illness. The fire brings on a climax in which the fire department performs and a series of hilarious gags are introduced.

Soup to Nuts

1925

Mighty Like a Moose poster
6.8

After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.

Mighty Like a Moose

1926

Youth's Gamble poster
9.0

William Ignatius Newton, a charmingly worthless young man, inherits a car, a dime, and a valet from his millionaire father, then sets out to learn about life. However, the elder Newton is still alive and has commissioned female detective Hazel Dawn to monitor William's activities, in the hope that the experience will make a man of him.

Youth's Gamble

1925

Behind the camera