tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post7472124661268895776..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: This week in TV Guide: April 7, 1956Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-12554241008946405772016-09-14T03:54:53.643-04:002016-09-14T03:54:53.643-04:00Honestly, I'd thought I'd written this bac...Honestly, I'd thought I'd written this back at the time ...<br /><br />A quote from <i>The Case Of The Real Perry Mason</i>, Dorothy B. Hughes's biography of Erle Stanley Gardner:<br /><br /><b>By the first of April,1956, it looked like Fred MacMurray would be Perry Mason.<br />In a memo to (Cornwell Jackson, Gardner's literary agent, and his wife Gail Patrick)... on April 9, "Apparently Fred MacMurray ... will probably be selected."<br /> ... (Gardner) had never seen MacMurray ... and didn't know who he was ...(and) wanted to know if any of his movies were currently showing so that he could look him over.</b><br /><br />So there too.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527404061764217504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-79854860991179971382016-09-14T03:54:37.839-04:002016-09-14T03:54:37.839-04:00Honestly, I'd thought I'd written this bac...Honestly, I'd thought I'd written this back at the time ...<br /><br />A quote from <i>The Case Of The Real Perry Mason</i>, Dorothy B. Hughes's biography of Erle Stanley Gardner:<br /><br /><b>By the first of April,1956, it looked like Fred MacMurray would be Perry Mason.<br />In a memo to (Cornwell Jackson, Gardner's literary agent, and his wife Gail Patrick)... on April 9, "Apparently Fred MacMurray ... will probably be selected."<br /> ... (Gardner) had never seen MacMurray ... and didn't know who he was ...(and) wanted to know if any of his movies were currently showing so that he could look him over.</b><br /><br />So there too.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527404061764217504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-53068569203255608742016-04-12T20:20:55.844-04:002016-04-12T20:20:55.844-04:00According to WABC Radio's Dan Ingram, Orson We...According to WABC Radio's Dan Ingram, Orson Welles was the only voiceover artist to receive "triple scale" for his voice work. Ingram was among those who received double-scale.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-78843330412277730752016-04-12T03:34:24.898-04:002016-04-12T03:34:24.898-04:00Sometimes I wonder just when people stopped lookin...Sometimes I wonder just when people stopped looking things up ...<br /><br /> - Erle Stanley Gardner stopped trying to write the <i>Perry Mason</i> radio show early on (Quote from ESG: "As a soaper I stunk.") He handed the radio show over to Irving Vendig, who was in charge for the whole radio run.<br />CBS wanted to move the <i>Mason</i> soap to TV, but Gardner wasn't having any; he held out for prime time, while giving Vendig his blessing to create his own show, which became <i>The Edge Of Night</i>.<br /><br /> - In 1956, Fred MacMurray was four years away from "Steve Douglas".<br />At that point, he was deep in his Western/Noir phase, playing as many heavies as good guys (<i>The Caine Mutiny</i> being the prime example).<br />Erle Stanley Gardner wasn't much of a moviegoer; he was leaving the production end of the TV <i>Mason</i> to Gail Patrick and her husband Cornwell Jackson.<br />It was Fred MacMurray's own decision not to do <i>Mason</i>, because the idea of a weekly TV hour was daunting to him (How he got talked into <i>My Three Sons</i> is another story).<br />And anyway, once Uncle Erle saw Raymond Burr's screen test and shouted "<i>That's</i> Perry Mason!" - game over.<br /><br />Mike Dorannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-45624591730293916302016-04-11T19:11:44.380-04:002016-04-11T19:11:44.380-04:00"So, Chip, where were you the night Ernie bro..."So, Chip, where were you the night Ernie broke Uncle Charlie's lamp?" Yeah, I don't see Steve Douglas as Perry Mason eitherAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00043758767085991440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-51627197582047044052016-04-10T15:45:41.813-04:002016-04-10T15:45:41.813-04:00Orson Welles appeared on tv again that fall in som...Orson Welles appeared on tv again that fall in something that more people have probably seen than anything else he ever did on tv: an episode of I LOVE LUCY, for which he was paid $15,000. "Lucy Meets Orson Welles" had a plot where Lucy became Orson's magic act assistant, but she thought she would be performing Shakespeare with him. It can still be seen today on both tv & DVD.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.com