In the very first Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Velvet Claws, written in the early days of the Great Depression it is revealed that Della Street came from a wealthy, or at least well-to-do, family that was wiped out by the stock market crash of 1929, forcing Della to get a job as a secretary.
•
However, Gertrude Warner was the first actress to portray Street regularly, albeit on the radio series, followed by Joan Alexander and Palmolive's "Madge", Jan Miner.
•
In the film adaptations made in the 1930s, five different actresses (Helen Trenholme, Claire Dodd, Genevieve Tobin, June Travis, and Ann Dvorak) portrayed Della Street.
Mason finally marries his longtime secretary Della Street, but has to cut their honeymoon short in order to defend a woman accused of murder.
Sesame Street | Coronation Street | The Wall Street Journal | Wall Street | Shortland Street | Hill Street Blues | Oxford Street | 10 Downing Street | Homicide: Life on the Street | E Street Band | Fleet Street | Corriere della Sera | High Street | Manic Street Preachers | Wall Street Crash of 1929 | Regent Street | Downing Street | Street Fighter | King Street | High Street, Oxford | Russell Street | Sauchiehall Street | Russell Street, Melbourne | Great Ormond Street Hospital | Flinders Street | Broad Street | Yonge Street | Liverpool Street station | Flinders Street Station | A Nightmare on Elm Street |