Ms. Hale, who won a 1959 Emmy for best supporting actress in a dramatic series, stayed with the show until it folded. Ms. Hale’s son, William, played the private-eye role. They tended to accent the personal, thoroughly platonic bond between Mason and Street far more than the old series. Ms. Hale also starred with Williams, her husband, in “The Clay Pigeon” (1949), a taut drama about a veteran who is framed on a murder charge. Ms. Hale wed Bill Williams, whose real name was Herman Katt, in 1946.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2017 22:03 UTC