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Barbara Hale (April 18, 1922 - January 26, 2017) was 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 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).
Most Popular Barbara Hale Trailers
Total trailers found: 75
25 June 1958
This melodrama tells the tale of a great battle between the French Foreign Legion and the rebellious Arab tribe, the Tuaregs, who fight it out upon the blistering Sahara sands.
01 November 1957
Hughie Mack, a not so nice western singer, is discovered by Clover Doyle as the next movie cowboy hero.
05 September 1945
A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.
17 August 1949
In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement.
18 April 1947
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
10 May 1943
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
02 December 1949
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
27 November 1943
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
15 November 1950
Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients.
25 August 1955
This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California.
25 March 1970
An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.
20 May 1953
Zachary Hallock and his son Joshua are farmers who live in a frontier town that suffers the assaults of a band of outlaws.
01 December 1956
An officer accused of cowardice volunteers to bring back General Custers's body after Little Big Horn.
07 January 1944
Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics but, as usual, everything backfires on him.
30 October 1946
A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.
14 March 1976
A youth (Russ Hanson) attempts to re-introduce a domesticated wolf to the wild.
26 May 1978
Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
01 February 1956
A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.
01 December 1985
When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.
26 November 1948
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work.
04 July 1955
Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
01 February 1953
It's 1876 and all the Indians are at peace except the Comanches lead by Black Cloud. When Black Cloud wipes out a town, only six soldiers are left and they head for the nearest fort.
10 April 1995
Attorney Bill McKenzie takes the case when his niece is framed for the murder of a popular and demanding sitcom star.
09 November 1994
The alleged suicide of a gubernatorial candidate triggers a series of mysterious deaths leading to the governor's mansion, and "Wild" Bill McKenzie, a friend of Perry Mason, is on the case.
31 May 1951
An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords.
19 February 1993
The owner of a cosmetics company is unveiling a new cream which she claims she's been using. She's been keeping her age a secret and now reveals that she's 60 and owes her appearance to the cream.
11 March 1990
Perry Mason ventures to Paris to defend a U.S. Marine Corps Captain accused of murdering a man suspected of being a Nazi SS Officer.
20 October 1944
Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.
03 March 1949
Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII.
04 March 1973
It's about the faith of a fourteen-year-old boy in the family Belgian draft horse named Chester who was used at the local logging company.
21 August 1943
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling.
10 May 1949
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him.
01 September 1944
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
24 September 1991
An editor of a fashion magazine writes a column that destroys careers. She is also a brutal employer.
12 February 1989
Ken Malansky, a law student of Perry Mason's, is accused of murdering a fellow student. Perry is reluctant to take on his case as the victim was the son of a close friend.
24 May 1987
Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weekend and has called his "friends" - an actress, a fortune-teller, David's private assistant and the two remaining staff at the hotel to discuss business.
16 October 1975
A black hole hits North Wisconsin and opens a door to other dimensions. Giant 15 meter spiders emerge from it, who have an appetite for human flesh! Two NASA scientists try to save the world.
06 January 1991
Perry is at TV station "KGGY" to be interviewed but thanks to the interference of main anchor-person Brett Huston the interview is pulled.
28 May 1978
Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their younger ones, Freddy & Margaret Jean, in a Los Angeles foster home.
11 February 1991
A gangster who has commited all kinds of crimes is accused to have killed his wife. As he was not the murderer in this case Perry Mason intents to find the killer.
08 December 1944
Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor.
05 November 1943
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
21 January 1990
The chief suspects in the murder of an author are the numerous colleagues whom he continuously plagiarized.
23 February 1987
Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge.
10 May 1994
A former associate of Perry Mason returns to handle the defense of a world-class chess player accused of murdering a prominent TV personality.
21 May 1993
Dr Sheila Carlin is good friends with Della who calls Perry in when she is being pestered by someone.
08 November 1986
An actor rigs a fake shooting on TV with the connivance of his friend, the show's host, but the practical joke goes wrong when the gun turns out to contain a live round.
01 November 1950
Bill Lawrence wins a bevy of prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them in order to pay the taxes incurred.
30 September 1990
A young woman from Las Vegas wants Perry Mason to defend her father.
05 October 1955
A backwoods lawyer's race for the governor's office is thwarted by mainstream opponents who dig up dirt from his past.
30 October 1992
Perry Mason is invited to the marriage of the daughter of an old friend of his. But after the ceremony the uncle of the bride is dead.
15 May 1988
A woman suddenly disappears after an early morning walk, and her husband is accused of murder.
20 May 1990
Perry Mason defends the husband of a famous rock singer who was found being killed after having had a tremendous discussion with her husband and her manager.
31 December 1943
A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss's fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante.
09 April 1989
A young theatre director is accused of killing a more famous Broadway director. Perry takes his case.
29 May 1986
A priest is murdered and the main suspect is a nun.
04 October 1987
Perry investigates the murder of a former madam and uncovers a multimillion dollar banking fraud in the process.
20 March 1953
Lance Caldwell, a cavalry lieutenant, recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
10 August 1945
Heading west for his health, Colonel Lambeth takes his daughter Rill along. Lost on the desert they are saved by Pecos and Chito.
14 May 1991
David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity gala for disabled children.
