jean hale

Born in Salt Lake City on December 27, 1938, Jean Hale  was raised in Darien, Connecticut. Her father, Stanton G. Hale, was a major corporate leader of Mormon heritage. She studied at the University of Utah and Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

After becoming a sought-after model, Jean Hale  studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse, where she was partnered with Dabney Coleman , with whom she fell in love. The couple married in 1961, and had four children. In the 80s, they divorced.

In the early 1960s, an important man saw Jean Hale walking down Fifth Avenue in New York, and approached her to assure her that she had a bright future in the movies. She got her signed to a seven figure contract at 20th Century-Fox. She made her film debut in the 1963 horror film Violent Midnight . 

After numerous roles in series, in 1967 she stars in F for Flint , where she plays Lisa Norton, an agent of an organization made up of female business executives who brainwash women (by using salon hair dryers that transmit messages! subliminals!). In this way, they try to overthrow the men who rule the world. James Coburn plays the spy Derek Flint, who will try to stop them.

That same year, Jean Hale appeared as Polly, the Mad Hatter’s henchman in his effort to steal the Batman’s cowl in Batman , the hit television series. Despite the fact that she was quite popular at that time, she was then offered few roles, in the feature film The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre , by Roger Corman, and various telefilms and episodes of series.

At the time of her death, Jean Hale was writing a screenplay called “Being Jeannie” based on the true story of a woman who impersonated her in the 1960s, married 10 men in Texas and Oklahoma, and stole your money.