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Barbara Hale, the Loyal Della Street on 'Perry Mason', Dies at 94.txt
Subject: Barbara Hale, the Loyal Della Street on 'Perry Mason', Dies at 94
From: Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.vintage
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/barbara-hale-the-loyal-della-street-on-perry-mason-dies-at-94/ar-AAmkiol?li=BBnbfcL
Barbara Hale, who played the steadfast secretary Della Street opposite Raymond
Burr on the legendary courtroom drama Perry Mason for nine seasons and 30
telefilms, has died. She was 94.
Hale, a former contract player at RKO and Columbia who made more than 50 films
before landing her signature role, died Thursday at her Sherman Oaks home in Los
Angeles.
Survivors include her son William Katt, best known as the star of the 1980s ABC
series The Greatest American Hero. He reported her death on Facebook.
"We've all been so lucky to have her for so long," Katt wrote. "She was gracious
and kind and silly and always fun to be with. A wonderful actress and smart
businesswoman, she was most of all a treasure as a friend and mother!"
Hale was mulling retirement to raise her three young children with her husband,
actor Bill Williams (The Adventures of Kit Carson), when producer Gail Patrick
Jackson approached her about playing Della on Perry Mason.
She quickly accepted the gig when she discovered that Burr, her old friend from
RKO, was going to star as the fictional defense attorney in the series based on
the Erle Stanley Gardner mystery novels.
Hale received two Emmy nominations (winning in 1959) for playing the quiet
beauty who was the rock of stability on Mason's team. She liked the fact that
Della was unmarried and without kids so it wouldn't confuse her real-life
children.
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