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Barbara Hale
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Barbara Hale (born April 18, 1921[1]) is an American actress known as Perry Mason's loyal secretary "Della Street".
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Personal life
- 1.2 Career
- 2 Footnotes
- 3 External links
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Biography
Personal life
Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois to Willa Colvin and Luther Ezra Hale,[2] a landscape gardener. She has Scottish-Irish ancestry.[3] Hale began appearing in motion pictures in 1943 after training at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In 1946 she married actor Bill Williams, a union that produced three children (including actor William Katt) and four grandchildren (two grandsons by her son William Katt and one grandson and one grand-daughter by youngest daughter Juanita). The marriage lasted for forty-six 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 was an adherent of the Bahá'í Faith.[4]
Career
Hale played a significant role as the loyal and knowledgeable secretary in the
Perry Mason series that ran from 1957 to 1966 and was reprised in several movies afterwards. The show was so successful that her contribution was recognized with a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was nominated for the Emmy Award twice for her performance on the show, in 1959 and 1961, winning the award in 1959. In 1949, she appeared in the critically acclaimed black-and-white film
The Window.
Hale had a featured role in the movie
Airport portraying the wife of pilot
Dean Martin.
Footnotes
