Henny Backus (born Henrietta Kaye, March 21, 1911 – December 9, 2004) was an American actress who was a Broadway showgirl in the 1930s. She played in Orson Welles's Horse Eats Hat. She was the wife of actor and comedian Jim Backus.
Career
right|thumb|260px|Kaye in [[Orson Welles's surrealistic farce Horse Eats Hat (1936)]]
She had the role of Bee in the Broadway play Chrysalis (1932). Working as Henriette Kaye, she was a member of the Federal Theatre Project. Described by The New York Times as "a leggy redhead with a droll sense of humor", she appeared in Orson Welles's Project 891 production Horse Eats Hat (1936), a surrealistic farce co-starring Welles, Joseph Cotten, Hiram Sherman and Arlene Francis. Her husband, Nat Karson,