Barbara Hale

Birthday: 18 April 1922, DeKalb, Illinois, USA

Height: 165 cm

Barbara was born on 18 April 1922, as one of two children. As a young girl, Ms. Hale intended to major in art and drawing; she began her professional career as a model for a comic strip called "Ramblin' Bill", during the time she was working her way through The Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. She married actor Bill Williams in 1946, an... Show more »

[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 r...Show more »

[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. Show less «

Barbara Hale

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