Perry Mason Case Of The Gambling Lady Cast
Directed by James Sheldon. With Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, Ray Collins. When an important government job is offered to the Mayor of Upton, his wife will go to any lengths to help her husband get the job including putting her own illegal activities on hold and resorting to blackmail which ends with her murder. Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is in Reno, helping Pete Warren (Peter Breck) finalize his divorce from his wife Myrna. The Case of the Gambling Lady Perry Mason Season 8. Directed by Jerry Hopper. With Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman. Gus Dalgran has been acting strangely and his business is suffering from someone embezzling. Metacritic TV Episode Reviews, The Case of the Gambling Lady, Pete Warren's estranged wife, Myrna, is killing time in Reno waiting for their divorce to go through. Below, CarterMatt has the full Perry Mason episode 8 synopsis with some more information all about what’s coming: After the team receives some unvarnished critique from Hamilton Burger (Justin Kirk), Della (Juliet Rylance) presents an increasingly stubborn Mason (Matthew Rhys) with her case for putting Emily (Gayle Rankin) on the stand.
Myrna Fahey in House of Usher | |
| Born | March 12, 1933 |
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| Died | May 6, 1973 (aged 40) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Pleasant Catholic Cemetery, Bangor, Maine |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1954–1973 |
Myrna Fahey (March 12, 1933 – May 6, 1973) was an American actress known for her role as Maria Crespo in Walt Disney's Zorro and as Madeline Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher.
She appeared in episodes of 37 television series from the 1950s into the 1970s, including Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Time Tunnel with Robert Colbert, Maverick with James Garner, 77 Sunset Strip with Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Laramie, Gunsmoke with James Arness, The Adventures of Superman with George Reeves, Kraft Suspense Theatre, Daniel Boone with Fess Parker, Perry Mason with Raymond Burr, and Batman with Adam West and Burt Ward.
Biography[edit]
Fahey was born in Carmel, Maine, near Bangor in 1933, and grew up in Southwest Harbor near Bar Harbor, Maine, where she was a cheerleader at Pemetic High School. She began competing in local beauty pageants in the early 1950s.[1] She acted one season at the Pasadena Playhouse before breaking into TV, and became an avid skier in California. She invested in stocks and one of her contracts stipulated that she have a stock ticker in her dressing room. In addition to dating baseball player Joe DiMaggio, she dated actor George Hamilton.[2]
Fahey became the subject of death threats while dating baseball great Joe DiMaggio in 1964. The FBI determined the threats came from a patient at the Agnews Developmental Center, a mental hospital in San Jose, California. Apparently the patient could not bear to see DiMaggio with anyone other than Marilyn Monroe, who died in 1962.
Fahey died on May 6, 1973, at age 40, at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, after a long battle with cancer. She is buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Bangor, Maine.[3]
Film and television work[edit]
Fahey complained in a 1960 interview that she was being typecast in 'good girl' roles because of what directors called her 'moral overtones,' even though she wanted to play darker and more complicated characters.[4] She had worked in many Westerns in the late 1950s, usually in the role of the sheriff's daughter, including an appearance on Gunsmoke in 1958 (an episode entitled: 'Innocent Broad'). She also appeared in a supporting role in 'Duel at Sundown', a notable episode of Maverick with James Garner, featuring Clint Eastwood as a trigger-happy villain. In another appearance in ‘‘Maverick’’ she starred as Dee Cooper, the owner of a cattle ranch, in conflict with Maverick’s herd of sheep. She starred in two episodes of Wagon Train, 'The Jane Hawkins Story' (1960) and 'The Melanie Craig Story' (1964), and an episode of Straightaway, 'Troubleshooter,' in 1961. Her image branched out in the 1960s, helped by House of Usher and a role on the Boris Karloff-hosted TV series Thriller that same year entitled 'Girl With A Secret.' Even her Western parts became 'darker.' After a rough love scene in the 1960 episode of Bonanza 'Breed of Violence', in which she cut her lip, the cast presented her with an award for 'Best Slapper in a Filmed Series.'[5]
Fahey's most sustained television work was a starring role in the one-season (1961–62) series Father of the Bride, based on a film of the same name starring Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor.[6] Fahey likely got the role because, as one newspaper reviewer pointed out, she 'looks enough like Liz Taylor to be her sister.'[7] Fahey was not flattered by the comparison, however, telling one interviewer 'the fact that I'm supposed to look like Elizabeth Whats-Her-Name had nothing to do with my getting [the part], because we don't really look alike I don't think, we just happen to have the same colorings.'[8] Fahey wanted to be released from the show even before it came up for renewal, reportedly feeling too much emphasis was being placed on the 'father' character and not enough on her 'bride.'[9] She also portrayed Jennifer Ivers on the TV version of Peyton Place.[6]:828-829
Fahey made four guest appearances on the drama series Perry Mason: Lydia Logan in the 1960 episode, 'The Case of the Nimble Nephew'; defendant Grace Halley in the 1961 episode 'The Case of the Violent Vest'; murder victim Myra Warren in the 1965 episode 'The Case of the Gambling Lady'; and defendant Holly Andrews in the 1966 episode 'The Case of the Midnight Howler'. In 1966, she played Blaze in the Batman episodes 'True or False-Face' and 'Holy Rat Race'.
References[edit]
- ^Lewiston Evening Journal, July 6, 1951, p. 7
- ^The Dispatch, Aug 2, 1963, p. 2
- ^'Myrna Fahey - The Private Life and Times of Myrna Fahey. Myrna Fahey Pictures'. www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com.
- ^Evening Independent, Nov. 6, 1960, p. 49
- ^St. Petersburg Times, June 24, 1961, p. 21
- ^ abTerrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. pp. 336–337. ISBN978-0-7864-6477-7.
- ^Chicago Tribune, Jan 16, 1961
- ^Lakeland Ledger, Oct. 6, 1961, p. 10
- ^Youngstown Vindicator, Mar 19, 1962, p. 14
External links[edit]
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Myrna Fahey. |
- Myrna Fahey on IMDb
- Myrna Fahey at Find a Grave
| The Case of the Lucky Legs | |
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| Directed by | Archie Mayo |
| Produced by | Henry Blanke |
| Written by | Jerome Chodorov (adaptation) Brown Holmes Ben Markson |
| Based on | The Case of the Lucky Legs 1934 novel by Erle Stanley Gardner |
| Starring | Warren William Genevieve Tobin Patricia Eills Lyle Talbot |
| Music by | Leo F. Forbstein |
| Cinematography | Tony Gaudio |
| Edited by | James Gibbon |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date | |
Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Case of the Lucky Legs is a 1935 mystery film, the third in a series of Perry Mason films starring Warren William as the famed lawyer.
Plot[edit]
Margie Clune wins the 'Lucky Legs' beauty contest concocted by Frank Patton, but has trouble collecting her $1,000 prize when the promoter skips town. It turns out it is all a scam he has pulled before. When he later turns up stabbed to death, she is a strong suspect.
Cast[edit]
- Warren William as Perry Mason
- Genevieve Tobin as Della Street
- Patricia Ellis as Margie Clune
- Lyle Talbot as Dr. Bob Doray
- Allen Jenkins as Spudsy Drake, Mason's private investigator
- Barton MacLane as Police Chief Bisonette
- Jeanne Cooper as Thelma Bell
- Porter Hall as Bradbury
- Anita Kerry as Eva Lamont
- Craig Reynolds as Frank Patton
- Henry O'Neill as District Attorney Manchester
- Charles Wilson as Police Officer Ricker
- Joseph Crehan as Detective Johnson
- Olin Howland as Dr. Croker, Perry's doctor
- Mary Treen as Spudsy's wife
Critical reception[edit]
Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene praised the film as 'an admirable film' sadly partnered as makeweight to I Give My Heart (a film Greene characterized as appalling). Comparing the character of Perry Mason to other similar fictional detectives like Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, Charlie Chan, and those created by William Powell, Greene concludes that Mason is his favorite film detective because he is a more genuine creation and recommends the film as 'good Mason if not good detection'.[1]
Home media[edit]
Perry Mason Case Of The Gambling Lady Cast 1964
On October 23, 2012, Warner Home Video released the film on DVD in Region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection alongside The Case of the Howling Dog, The Case of the Curious Bride, The Case of the Velvet Claws, The Case of the Black Cat and The Case of the Stuttering Bishop in a set entitled Perry Mason: The Original Warner Bros. Movies Collection. This is a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and only in the US.
References[edit]
- ^Greene, Graham (31 January 1936). 'The Case of the Lucky Legs/Charlie Chan in Shanghai'. The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. pp. 48–49. ISBN0192812866.)
External links[edit]
- The Case of the Lucky Legs at the TCM Movie Database
- The Case of the Lucky Legs on IMDb
- The Case of the Lucky Legs at AllMovie
- The Case of the Lucky Legs at the American Film Institute Catalog
Perry Mason Case Of The Gambling Lady Cast List
