Barbara Hale

Barbara Hale

Barbara Hale is an American actress best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street on more than 250 episodes of the long-running Perry Mason television series and later reprising the role in 30 made-for-TV movies. Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois, to Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener, and his wife, Wilma Colvin. She is of Scots-Irish ancestry. Hale graduated from high school in Rockford, Illinois, then attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, planning to become an artist. Her performing career began in Chicago when she started modeling to pay for her education. She moved to Hollywood in 1943, and made her first screen appearances playing small parts (often uncredited). Hale was under contract to RKO Radio Pictures through the late 1940s. She appeared in Higher and Higher (1943) with Frank Sinatra; played leading lady to Robert Mitchum in West of the Pecos (1945); enjoyed top billing in both Lady Luck (1946) opposite Robert Young and The Window (1949) with Arthur Kennedy; and co-starred in Jolson Sings Again (1949), with Larry Parks playing Al Jolson and Hale as Jolson's wife, Ellen Clark. She played the top-billed title role in Lorna Doone (1951) and portrayed Julia Hancock in The Far Horizons (1955) with Fred MacMurray and Charlton Heston. Her flourishing movie career more or less ended when Hale accepted her best known role, Della Street, secretary to attorney Perry Mason, in the TV series with Raymond Burr. The show ran from 1957 to 1966, and she reprised the role in several television movies. Her last performance to date was in 2000 at age 78. In 1967 she guest starred on the ABC series Custer. Hale also had a featured role in the 1970 ensemble film Airport, playing the wife of a jetliner pilot (Dean Martin).
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1922-04-18
Place of Birth: DeKalb, Illinois, USA
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Movies List of Barbara Hale

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Airport

1970 Movie
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The Window

1949 Movie
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The Houston Story

1956 Movie
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Last of the Comanches

1953 Movie
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The Clay Pigeon

1949 Movie
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7th Cavalry

1956 Movie
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Jolson Sings Again

1949 Movie
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Higher and Higher

1943 Movie
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The Falcon Out West

1944 Movie
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Seminole

1953 Movie
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Perry Mason Returns

1985 Movie
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The Far Horizons

1955 Movie
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First Yank into Tokyo

1945 Movie
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The Oklahoman

1957 Movie
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West of the Pecos

1945 Movie
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The Jackpot

1950 Movie
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Buckskin

1968 Movie
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And Baby Makes Three

1949 Movie
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The Lone Hand

1953 Movie
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Lorna Doone

1951 Movie
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The First Time

1952 Movie
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Lady Luck

1946 Movie
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Heavenly Days

1944 Movie
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Emergency Wedding

1950 Movie
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Slim Carter

1957 Movie
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Meet the Governor

1955 Movie
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A Likely Story

1947 Movie
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Unchained

1955 Movie
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The Iron Major

1943 Movie
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Government Girl

1943 Movie
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Desert Hell

1958 Movie
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Prunes and Politics

1944 Movie
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Around the World

1943 Movie
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Goin' to Town

1944 Movie
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The Young Runaways

1978 Movie
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The Seventh Victim

1943 Movie
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Big Wednesday

1978 Movie