Posted on 05/07/08
Perry Mason is a big fat liar
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHTThe Secret Life of Raymond BurrBy Michael Seth StarrApplause, 266 pages, $24.95Emmy-winning actor Raymond Burr's salary rose to $2-million within eight years of playing Perry Mason (Erle Stanley Gardner's fictional crusading lawyer who never lost a case to his arch-nemesis, DA Hamilton Burger). Later, he played wheelchair-bound cop Robert T. Ironside (the first disabled protagonist on TV) for eight seasons. His most memorable film roles were as a bespectacled, cane-carrying DA who tries to send Montgomery Clift to the electric chair in A Place in the Sun (1951), and the hulking, menacing killer in Rear Window (1954), who almost knocks off James Stewart.
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