- Barbara Hale
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spouse =Barbara Hale (born
April 18 ,1922 ) [Some sources cite 1921] is anEmmy Award -winning American actress known for her roles as the loyal secretary ofPerry Mason , "Della Street".Biography
Personal life
Hale was born in
DeKalb, Illinois , the daughter of Willa (née Colvin) and Luther Ezra Hale, who was a landscape gardener. [ [http://members.aol.com/haleroots/familytree.html Descendants of John Hale Sr. (Frontiersman) - Hale Roots ] ] She has Scottish-Irish ancestry. [ [http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/113/Barbara+Hale/index.html Barbara Hale - The Private Life and Times of Barbara Hale. Barbara Hale Pictures ] ] 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 actorWilliam Katt ) and four grandchildren (two grandsons by her son William Katt and one grandson and one granddaughter 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 is an adherent of theBahá'í Faith . [cite news | title = Bahai faith teaches universal acceptance of God | author = The Associated Press | date = 2000-12-30 | url = http://www.uga.edu/bahai/News/123000-1.html]Career
Hale was under contract to
RKO Pictures in the late 1940s. Although she never became a major star, she appeared like 1946's "Lady Luck" oppositeRobert Young andFrank Morgan as well as 1949's "The Window " and "Jolson Sings Again ", the latter opposite Larry Parks' Al Jolson as his wife, Ellen Clark.Hale played a significant role as the loyal and knowledgeable secretary in the "Perry Mason" series with
Raymond Burr that ran from 1957 to 1966 and was reprised in a number of television movies afterwards. The show was so successful that the actress's contribution was recognized with a star on theHollywood Walk of Fame . She was nominated for the Emmy Award twice, in 1959 and 1961, winning in 1959.Hale had a featured role in the movie "Airport" portraying the wife of pilot
Dean Martin .References
External links
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* [http://www.barbarahale.com Barbara Hale Home Page]
* [http://dbman.pair.com/Barbara_Hale_Annex/ Barbara Hale Annex]Persondata
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DATE OF BIRTH= 1922-4-18
PLACE OF BIRTH=DeKalb, Illinois , USA
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