Barbara Hale
Stats
| Name: | Barbara Hale | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 94 (April 18, 1922 -January 26, 2017) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| Homepage | http://www.barbarahale.com/ | |
| TMDB Popularity | 19.493 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | 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). |
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Movies
The Clay Pigeon
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smokingsides
At approximately the twenty-eight minute mark in the movie, Barbara Hale and Bill Williams are in a car going down a highway in California. Bill is driving and Barbara is in the passenger seat next to hm. As the scene opens, Barbara is holding a small lighter with both hands and is using it to light an all white cigarette in the left corner of her mouth. She then takes the cigarette with the thumb and forefinger of her left hand and passes it to Bill, letting a small amount of smoke flow from her mouth. Barbara then takes another cigarette from her purse and places it between her lips in the left corner of her mouth and lights it, again holding the lighter with both hands. She then takes the cigarette with her left hand and exhales a small amount of smoke. Both she and Bill then turn their heads as a motorcycle cop roars up behind their car. The scene then cuts away to the cop as he passes them. When the scene cuts back to Bill and Barbara, cigarette smoke can be seen rising in front of both of them. The scene then cuts away to another location. |
The Falcon in Hollywood
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smokingsides
Barbara Hale and Tom Conway are in a hotel room looking for clues to a murder. Hale opens a cigarette box and takes out a cigarette. Conway walks over to her and gives her a light. |
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