Charlotte Henry(1914-1980)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Charlotte acted on stage from the age of five. At thirteen, she made her
Broadway debut in 'Courage' (1928), two year later reprising her role for the screen version. Paramount wanted to cast an unknown actress
in the title role of
Alice in Wonderland (1933) and
picked Charlotte from 7000 applicants worldwide (she was 57th to
audition). Unfortunately, the picture flopped -- despite an excellent
supporting cast which featured the likes of W.C. Fields,
Cary Grant,
Gary Cooper and
Edna May Oliver. Charlotte then appeared
as Bo-Peep in
March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) with
Laurel & Hardy, but, thereafter, finding meatier roles few and far between. She had one final fling with the movies as the perfunctory female lead in Monogram's Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941), opposite the East Side Kids. She seems to have lost heart after that and returned to acting in stock theater. Charlotte eventually left L.A. and relocated to southern California where she had a lengthy tenure as the executive secretary to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Diego.
