Henny Backus
Henny Backus was a Broadway showgirl in the 1930s whose stage credits include Orson Welless Horse Eats Hat. She was the wife of actor and comedian Jim.
Henrietta Kaye was born in Brooklyn March 21, 1911. She studied sculpture at Cooper Union, but she preferred working in the theater and appeared in Broadway musicals during the 1930s. Woking as Henriette Kaye, she was a member of the Federal Theatre Project. Described by The New York Times as a leggy redead with a droll sense f humor, she appeared in Orson Welless Project 891 production, Horse Eats Hat , a surrealistic farce costarring Welles, Joseph Cotten, Hiram Sherman and Arlene Francis.182 Her husband, Nat Karson, designed the sets and costumes.182
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