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Photos: Barbara Hale | 1922-2017

Barbara Hale, best known for her Emmy Award-winning role as Perry Mason’s loyal secretary Della Street on the 1950s and ’60s TV series starring Raymond Burr as the crime-solving defense attorney, has died at 94. Pictured: Hale arrives at the 19th Golden Boot Awards on Aug. 11, 2001 in Beverly Hills.

Barbara Hale, best known for her Emmy Award-winning role as Perry Mason’s loyal secretary Della Street on the 1950s and ’60s TV series starring Raymond Burr as the crime-solving defense attorney, has died at 94.

Pictured: Hale arrives at the 19th Golden Boot Awards on Aug. 11, 2001 in Beverly Hills.

  (Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images)

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Barbara Hale, best known for her Emmy Award-winning role as Perry Mason’s loyal secretary Della Street on the 1950s and ’60s TV series starring Raymond Burr as the crime-solving defense attorney, has died.

Barbara Hale: Career in pictures

Frank Sinatra speaks with Barbara Hale during a radio broadcast circa 1940 in New York.

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Barbara Hale: Career in pictures

Actors Janis Carter, Robert Young and Barbara Hale star in Columbia Pictures’ comedy “And Baby Makes Three” in 1949.

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Barbara Hale: Career in pictures

Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale star in the “Perry Mason” episode “The Case of the Runaway Corpse” in 1957.  (CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images)

Barbara Hale: Career in pictures

Barbara Hale plays secretary Della Street and Raymond Burr is the titular defense attorney in the “Perry Mason” episode “The Case of the Loquacious Liar” in 1960.

  (CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images)

Barbara Hale: Career in pictures

From left: Tim Tallman, Jayne Meadows Allen and Barbara Hale attend the Early TV Memories First-Class stamp dedication ceremony held at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on Aug. 11, 2009 in North Hollywood.

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