Career
Among her most notable films were The History of Mr Polly (1949) and The Blue Lamp (1950). Henson was born Gladys Gunn in Dublin, Ireland. In 1932, she appeared in the premiere of Noël Coward"s Design for Living on Broadway, appearing in several other London and Broadway shows, including Coward"s Secretariat to Music (1939).
After her divorce from Henson, she appeared in numerous well-known post-war films, often alongside Jack Warner, whose wife she played in both Train of Events and The Blue Lamp.
The scene in the latter in which her character learns of her husband"s death has been described as "a masterpiece of understated emotion, moving without falling into sentimentality." She died in London 21 December 1982 aged 85.