Barbara Hale, who played Perry Mason’s loyal secretary, dies

Barbara Hale, an Emmy Award-winning actress who typified the ideal mid-20th-century secretary as the beautiful, loyal, confident but soft-spoken Della Street on the television series “Perry Mason,” died Thursday at home in Los Angeles. She was 94. Her death was confirmed by Jacqueline Stander, the agent for actor William Katt, Ms. Hale’s son. Ms. Hale […]