Thursday, July 22, 2010

REMINISCING … BARBARA HALE

REMINISCING …

BARBARA HALE

Barbara Hale

Barbara Hale is an American actress best known for her role as Della Street on the long running Perry Mason show. The show ran from 1957 to 1966, and she reprised the role in several television movies.

Barbara hale perry mason

Hale was under contract to RKO Radio Pictures through the late 1940s. She appeared in Higher and Higher (1944) with Frank Sinatra, Lady Luck (1946) opposite Robert Young and Frank Morgan, the The Window (1949), and Jolson Sings Again (1949), with Larry Parks playing Al Jolson and Hale as Jolson's wife, Ellen Clark. She played the title role in Lorna Doone (1951) and was Julia Hancock in The Far Horizons (1955) with Charlton Heston.

lorna doone poster

Hale had a featured role in the movie Airport, playing the wife of the pilot (Dean Martin). In 1967, she guest starred on the ABC series Custer.

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