Download or read book Hiding in Plain Sight written by Michael Seth Starr and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond Burr (1917-1993), a film noir regular known for his villainous roles in movies like Rear Window, became one of the most popular stars in television history. He delighted millions of viewers each week in the toprated shows Perry Mason and Ironside, which ran virtually uninterrupted for nearly twenty years.
Download or read book Raymond Burr written by Ona L. Hill and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his television series "Perry Mason" and "Ironside," Burr had a career spanning over fifty years. His life is meticulously documented here, including movie roles in such Hollywood productions as Rear Window and Key to the City, and other work in television. Also discussed are his family, Fiji Island home, work in Canadian films, and trips to Korea and Vietnam to entertain American troops. The appendices include a complete episode guide to the "Perry Mason" series.
Download or read book Remembering Perry Mason with Raymond Burr written by Brian McFadden and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sit back, relax and enjoy a fascinating journey back in time to revisit the original TV classic with the man who personified Perry Mason! Raymond Burr discusses the timeless popularity of the show, his co-stars and his career. In the process, we get a tantalizing glimpse into the fifties and sixties. Were the times really so different from today? Learn more about some of Raymond Burr's bizarre biographies, his good and bad movies (including his sense of humor about the bad ones!) And find out why he wasn't at all sure, in the beginning, that "Perry Mason" would be a success!
Download or read book William Dorsey s Philadelphia and Ours written by Roger Lane and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book's historical section is based on hundreds of newly discovered scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian. These provide an intimate and comprehensive view of the critical period between the Civil War and about 1900, when African-Americans, formally free and increasingly urban, made the biggest educational and occupational gains in history. Dorsey's tens of thousands of newspaper clippings and other sources, detail records of high culture and low, success and scandal, personal and public life. In the final chapters Lane outlines the urban situation today, the strong parallels between past and present that suggest the power of continuity and the equally strong differences that point to the possibility of change.
Download or read book Burr written by Gore Vidal and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton,Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation. Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated—and misunderstood—figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist named Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler. Together, they explore both Burr's past—and the continuing civic drama of their young nation. Burr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series, which spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to post-World War II. With their broad canvas and sprawling cast of fictional and historical characters, these novels present a panorama of American politics and imperialism, as interpreted by one of our most incisive and ironic observers.
Download or read book The Case Of The Postponed Murder written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perry Mason is hired to protect Mae Farr from a presumed stalker, wealthy playboy Penn Wentworth. When Mason learns that Wentworth wants Mae for forging his name on a cheque, things get complicated. But fatal gunplay leaves Wentworth dead, Mae a wanted woman and Perry Mason in trouble.
Download or read book At The Bar written by David Margolick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lawyer's trade--from its noblest moments to its greatest blunders--is examined with rigor, insight, and wit by one of America's foremost commentators on the law, New York Times columnist David Margolick.
Download or read book The Blind Alley written by Jake Hinkson and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Duke in Darkness written by Patrick Hamilton and published by London : Constable. This book was released on 1943 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1580, during the French Civil Wars, the Duke of Latteraine has been imprisoned in the Chateau Lamorre for 15 years, together with his servant, Gribaud. The Duke has feigned blindness in the hope that it will aid his eventual escape. As the two men play a tense game of chess, it becomes evident that confinement has caused Gribaud to lose his reason. They are visited by an erstwhile friend named Voulain, now in the service of the enemy, who tries to persuade the Duke that he is still loyal to him. Voulain sets out a daring plan of escape. The Duke must decide whether he can be trusted-and determine what to do with a loyal, mad companion who could be the plan's undoing.
Download or read book The Case of the Restless Redhead written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Bagby has ambition, bad luck - and red hair. When she is caught with stolen diamonds is looks like an airtight case. But Perry Mason believes she has been set up. Then comes news of another crime and Mason finds the charge against his client is murder.
Download or read book The Crime Films of Anthony Mann written by Max Alvarez and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Mann (1906–1967) is renowned for his outstanding 1950s Westerns starring James Stewart (Winchester '73, The Naked Spur, The Man from Laramie). But there is more to Mann's cinematic universe than those tough Wild West action dramas featuring conflicted and secretive heroes. This brilliant Hollywood craftsman also directed fourteen electrifying crime thrillers between 1942 and 1951, among them such towering achievements in film noir as T-Men, Raw Deal, and Side Street. Mann was as much at home filming dark urban alleys in black-and-white as he was the prairies and mountains in Technicolor, and his protagonists were no less conflicted and secretive than his 1950s cowboys. In these Mann crime thrillers we find powerful stories of sexual obsession (The Great Flamarion), the transforming images of women in wartime and postwar America (Strangers in the Night, Strange Impersonation), exploitation of Mexican immigrants (Border Incident), studies of the criminal mind (He Walked by Night), and Civil War bigotry (The Tall Target). Mann's forceful camera captured such memorable and diverse stars as Erich von Stroheim, Farley Granger, Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Richard Basehart, Ricardo Montalbán, Ruby Dee, and Raymond Burr. The Crime Films of Anthony Mann features analysis of rare documents, screenplays, story treatments, and studio memoranda and reveals detailed behind-the-scenes information on preproduction and production on the Mann thrillers. Author Max Alvarez uses rare and newly available sources to explore the creation of these noir masterworks. Along the way, the book exposes secrets and solves mysteries surrounding the mercurial director and his remarkable career, which also included Broadway and early live television.
Download or read book Perry Mason written by Thomas M. Leitch and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perry Mason was one of the most successful television programs from the 1950s and remains one of the most influential crime melodramas from any period. The show's influence goes far beyond its nine-year tenure (1957-66), the millions of dollars it generated for its creators and for CBS, and the definitive identification it provided its star, Raymond Burr. Perry Mason has become a true piece of Americana, evolving through a formulaic approach that law professors continue to use today as a teaching tool. In his examination of Perry Mason, author Thomas Leitch looks at why this series has appealed to so many for so long and what the continued appeal tells us about Americans' attitudes toward lawyers and the law, then and now. Beginning with its roots in earlier detective fiction, stories of fictional attorneys, and the work of Erle Stanley Gardner (the show's creator), Leitch lays out the circumstances under which Perry Mason was conceived and marketed as a distinct franchise. The evolution of Perry Mason is charted here in an inclusive manner, discussing the show's broadcast history (ending with the series of two-hour telemovies that aired nearly twenty years after the original series ended) alongside its generic nature and place within popular culture, the show's ideological dynamic, and issues of authorship in the context of television. This concise study is an excellent tool for television and media scholars as well as fans of the Perry Mason series.
Download or read book The Case of the Alliterative Attorney written by Bill Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-05 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The key to Perry Mason was that it was a game show. It was 'Who Killed Cock Robin?' You had five suspects, each of whom had their own scene [opposite Mason] in the course of each show-and each of whom had a chance to 'one-up' Mason in that scene. So when it got to court in the second half of the show, the imprint of the characters was so strong that the game persisted. That, with outstanding scripts and direction, plus the chemistry between Raymond Burr and the rest of the cast, are the main reasons for the show's popularity."~Arthur Marks,producer of the original CBS series,director of seventy-six episodes of Perry Mason (more than any other director)"The underlying dynamic behind the appeal of Perry Mason is that it was a show about innocent people who are unjustly accused. Everyone would like to have a 'Godfather,' and to some extent Raymond Burr filled that part. It was an indestructible formula."~Dean Hargrove,writer of Perry Mason Returns,executive producer of the NBC Perry Mason moviesBased on the best-selling novels of Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason was an idealized portrayal of our legal system-a reminder that, in the end, what matters is that justice is truly served. Part whodunit, part courtroom thriller, both the long-running original series (CBS, 1957-1966) and the equally successful made-for-TV movies (NBC, 1985-1995) have not only captivated audiences around the world since their respective premieres, but continue to attract new viewers every day via cable and DVD.THE CASE OF THE ALLITERATIVE ATTORNEY tells you everything you wanted to know about the iconic TV series that made Raymond Burr a star. Featuring a comprehensive episode guide to both the original CBS series and NBC movies, the book includes interviews and commentaries from such esteemed Perry Mason alumni as Barbara Hale ("Della Street") and Richard Anderson ("Lieutenant Drumm"); guest actors Ruta Lee, David McCallum, H.M. Wynant, Jacqueline Scott, June Lockhart and Margaret O'Brien; producer/director Arthur Marks; writer/producer Dean Hargrove; directors Ron Satlof, Christian Nyby II and James Sheldon; and many, many others. Plus: insight into the writing and production of both the CBS and NBC series; fun and interesting factoids for every episode; behind-the-scenes photographs; and a whole lot more.
Download or read book Hiding in Plain Sight written by Michael Starr and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the life of the popular television and film actor, while focusing on the secret gay life that he led while maintaining a heterosexual public persona in order to protect his career.
Download or read book Full Service written by Scotty Bowers and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World War II veteran and Hollywood gas station attendant describes how his good looks and open bisexuality culminated in liaisons with numerous celebrities, providing a chronicle of Hollywood's sexual underground in the 1940s and 1950s.
Download or read book The Case of the Bigamous Spouse written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1987-11-12 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwynn Elston learns that her best friend's husband already has a wife and family, but when he is found murdered Gwynn must ask Perry Mason to defend her against a murder charge
Download or read book Hiding in Plain Sight written by Michael Starr and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
