Barbara Hale

Barbara Hale is an American actress best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street on more than 270 episodes of the longrunning Perry Mason television series. She reprised the role inPerry Mason movies for television.

Barbara Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois, to Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener, and his wife, Wilma Colvin. She is of ScotsIrish ancestry. Hale graduated in 1940 from Rockford 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. Hales family included a sister, Juanita, for whom Hales younger daughter was named.

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