Barbara Hale Net Worth

Barbara Hale's Quotes

• [about her marriage to Bill Williams] It took me two years to talk him into marrying me.
• [about making West of the Pecos (1945)] I told the director, Edward Killy, about casting a smaller role in the film for Bill Williams [her future husband]. Killy was sort of a stocky man, and had a cigar. He was a short man, and that cigar was about as big as he was . . . He smoked all the time! But he said, "Sure, Barb, I'll get Bill Williams up here in Lone Pine". He knew I had a crush on Bill. So Killy said, "I'll give him one scene at the beginning of the shoot and another at the end of the picture, so Bill can stay the whole time!". That was so nice of him.

Interesting Facts about Barbara Hale

1. The daughter of Wilma (Colvin) and Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener, she married actor Bill Williams (birth name Hermann August Wilhelm Katt, hence the last name of their children was Katt). The couple had three children: Jody Katt (born 1947), actor William Katt (1951) and Juanita Katt (born 1953). She and William Katt, appeared together in California Surf (1978), The Greatest American Hero: Who's Woo in America (1982), and in the NBC television-movie reboots of Perry Mason. She had six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
2. During her time on Perry Mason (1957), Ms. Hale was known industry-wide for her screams. "She has the best shriek in Hollywood", Raymond Burr once said.
3. Has an orchid named after her (cultivated by Raymond Burr).
4. On the Perry Mason (1957) set she sketched constantly.
5. According to official voter registration records on file at the office of the Los Angeles County Clerk-Recorder, Hale's date of birth was April 18, 1922. (Some sources had cited 1921.).
6. Graduate of Rockford (Illinois) High School, class of 1940. Was voted the May Queen her senior year in high school.
7. Best remembered by the public for her starring role as confidential secretary "Della Street" in Perry Mason (1957).
8. Was one of the original 'Dr Pepper" girls featured in the soda company's calendars in the 1940s and 50s. Her photo can be see at the Dr Pepper Museum in Dublin, Texas (not to be confused with the Waco Dr Pepper Museum).
9. Currently resides in Palm Desert, California and Los Angeles, California. [August 2005]
10. Barbara Hale was absent from 8 episodes of the 271 episodes of the show Perry Mason (1957) bringing her total count to 263 episodes of the series acting her famous role of Della Street, but she did appear in the credits of all 271 episodes, due to what is known in the television industry as "credit only.".
11. She and her Perry Mason: The Case of the Bullied Bowler (1964) co-star Mike Connors both died on January 26, 2017.