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Author: Michael Starr
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781557836946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks 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.
Author: Ona L. Hill
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2012-02-09
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780786491377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBest 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.
Author: Roger Lane
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 0195065662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLane 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.
Author: Brian Kelleher
Publisher: St Martins Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780312006693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the creation, production, characters, and 275 episodes of the mystery show featuring the popular fictitious lawyer.
Author: Thomas M. Leitch
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780814331217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the enduring popularity of the television series Perry Mason and its universal reputation as the most formulaic program in the history of broadcast television. 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.
Author: David Margolick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0671887874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Dorothy Belle Hughes
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Luhr
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLuhr explores Chandler's relation to the American film industry from three angles: his work in Hollywood in the 1940s and early 1950s; his controversial writings about the film industry; and feature films based upon his fiction, including a comparison of the different screen incarnations of Philip Marlow, from Dick Powell and Humphrey Bogart to Elliot Gould and Robert Mitchum.
Author: Patrick Hamilton
Publisher: London : Constable
Published: 1943
Total Pages: 98
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780345336842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSuccessful florist Mildreth Faulkner finds that the flower business is no bed of roses when her arch-competitor, Harry Peavis, secretly buys stock in her small, family-owned corporation. While Peavis proposes a partnership, Mildreth suspects he's really plotting a power play. So to keep the scurrilous shareholder from muscling her out, she seeks Perry Mason's expertise. But even the legendary legal eagle may be stymied when Mildreth's company is plundered by her ne'er-do-well brother-in-law to pay off a gambling debt. The money trail leads to a nightclub hostess and her crooked boss. And when one is poisoned, and the other murdered, the trail of evidence leads right back to Mildreth. Mason knows the feisty florist is no shrinking violet...but does she have the pluck to be a cold-blooded killer?
