Raymond Burr, the burly, impassive actor who played the defense lawyer Perry Mason and the police detective Robert T. Ironside on television, died on Sunday at his ranch in Dry Creek Valley, near Healdsburg, Calif. Did Joan Crawford appear in Perry Mason? When Joan Crawford needed to skewer her opponentRead More →
Why Did Perry and Della Never Marry? Actually, they did, in at least one of the gazillion Perry Mason productions. But mostly they were just exceedingly great work-partners. The Warner Brothers’ version of The Case of the Velvet Claws, which came out in 1936, saw Della and Perry married. DidRead More →
He briefly cut the habit after a stint in rehab, but in 2008 he was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, “a disorder triggered when a person’s immune system attacks his peripheral nervous system,” that put Perry in a wheelchair and soon he was back on the bottle. How much does RefrigeratorRead More →