Barbara Hale (born April 18, 1922) is an American actress best known for her role as Della Street, the loyal secretary of Perry Mason.
Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois, the daughter of Willa (née Colvin) and Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener. She has Scottish-Irish ancestry. Hale attended high school in Rockford, Illinois, then began appearing in motion pictures in 1943 after training at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1946 she married...
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Barbara Hale (born April 18, 1922) is an American actress best known for her role as Della Street, the loyal secretary of Perry Mason.
Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois, the daughter of Willa (née Colvin) and Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener. She has Scottish-Irish ancestry. Hale attended high school in Rockford, Illinois, then began appearing in motion pictures in 1943 after training at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1946 she married actor Bill Williams, star of The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951-1955), a union that produced three children (including actor William Katt) and four grandchildren (two grandsons by her son William and one grandson and one granddaughter by youngest daughter Juanita). The marriage lasted for 46 years until his death in 1992 from brain cancer. Hale herself has survived several bouts of cancer. She has also been a spokeswoman for Amana appliances. She is an adherent of the Bahá'í Faith.
Hale was under contract to RKO Radio Pictures in the late...
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