Jean Hale, who tussled with James Coburn’s character within the spy spoof In Like Flint and portrayed the hatcheck-girl confederate of David Wayne’s Mad Hatter on TV’s Batman, has died. She was 82.
Hale died Aug. 3 of pure causes in Santa Monica, her household introduced Monday.
She was married to Emmy winner Dabney Coleman — the 2 met whereas finding out appearing on the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York — from 1961 till their 1984 divorce.
The glamourous Salt Lake Metropolis native appeared in different movies together with Taggart (1964), The Oscar (1966) and The St. Valentine’s Day Bloodbath (1967) and on tv on Perry Mason, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Bonanza, The Fugitive, Hawaii 5-O, McHale’s Navy, My Favourite Martian, Hogan’s Heroes, The Wild Wild West and Mod Squad.
Within the Fox CinemaScope movie In Like Flint (1967), Hale’s Lisa Norton works for a company made up of feminine enterprise executives who brainwash ladies (via the usage of salon hairdryers that transmit subliminal messages!) into attempting to overthrow the male-dominated world. Coburn’s superspy Derek Flint makes an attempt to cease them.
Additionally in 1967, Hale confirmed up because the moll Polly, who helps the evil Mad Hatter in his effort to steal Batman’s cowl for his assortment, within the season-two two-parter “The Contaminated Cowl” and “The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul” on ABC’s Batman.
Hale was born in Salt Lake Metropolis on Dec. 27, 1938, and raised in Darien, Connecticut. Her father, Stanton G. Hale, was a serious company chief of Mormon heritage, and great-grandfather Solomon Hale owned a ranch with Brigham Younger.
She attended the College of Utah, the place she majored in ballet, after which Skidmore School in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Hale modeled for the Conover Company and the Huntington Hartford Company and studied on the Neighborhood Playhouse, the place she discovered from Sydney Pollack and Martha Graham alongside such fellow college students as Coleman, James Caan, Jerry Weintraub, Jessica Walter, Christopher Lloyd and Brenda Vaccaro.
Within the early ’60s, Hale was noticed by Sandra Dee’s agent Len Luskin strolling down Fifth Avenue in New York, and that led her to signal a seven-figure contract at twentieth Century-Fox. She made her movie debut within the 1963 horror movie Violent Midnight.
In 1984, then referred to as Jean Hale Coleman, she began the manufacturing firm Coleman-Tanasescu Leisure with Gino Tanasescu earlier than branching out on her personal in 2000. That yr, she acquired movie rights to the 1999 ebook Two Toes — The Coyote Legend of Inexperienced River, written by her uncle Preston Q. Hale and based mostly on his expertise as a younger trapper through the Despair in Utah.
On the time of her loss of life, Hale was engaged on a script known as “Being Jeannie” based mostly on the true story of a girl who impersonated her within the Sixties, married 10 males throughout Texas and Oklahoma and stole their cash.
Survivors embody her three kids with Coleman, Kelly, Randy and Quincy.
