tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post4540973637725216162..comments2024-03-08T18:49:51.289-05:00Comments on Classic Film and TV Café: Seven Things to Know About Raymond BurrRick29http://www.blogger.com/profile/08358116647815569722noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-52300390471564915752020-07-20T00:44:23.349-04:002020-07-20T00:44:23.349-04:00That look on Lars Thorwald’s face when he sees Jam...That look on Lars Thorwald’s face when he sees James Stewart always gives me the creeps. It’s the highlight of the film and makes it the suspense film it is.PBPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09355271896535121954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-27750700272998171662017-09-19T22:22:53.931-04:002017-09-19T22:22:53.931-04:00The vineyard was in Sonoma County, not Napa. Sadly...The vineyard was in Sonoma County, not Napa. Sadly it has closed.Sue Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01884072667977354828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-21824690249215151892017-04-15T00:33:25.209-04:002017-04-15T00:33:25.209-04:00Raymond Burr also owned a winery in the Napa Valle...Raymond Burr also owned a winery in the Napa Valley. A few years ago, this was after Burr's death, a friend of mine happened to be visiting the winery on Burr's birthday. Visitors to the winery that day were treated not only to wine, but also a full barbecue + birthday cake. A real feast, he said.The Lady Evehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11963115499930520653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-45520876091782226962017-04-11T16:52:14.173-04:002017-04-11T16:52:14.173-04:00I truly enjoyed reading your post, Rick. I really ...I truly enjoyed reading your post, Rick. I really liked watching Raymond Burr, especially as Perry Mason and Lars Thorwald. I am pleased to see that Canada honored him on a postage stamp.toto2https://www.blogger.com/profile/09652682900471649463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-8418350264132519182017-04-06T08:41:13.643-04:002017-04-06T08:41:13.643-04:00And he was gay, and dated Elizabeth Taylor for awh...And he was gay, and dated Elizabeth Taylor for awhile as a beard (she was his) around the time of A Place in the Sun. I wonder if they ever doubled with Monty Clift and his chin whiskers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18030112918054543041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-24021038051982038132017-04-03T16:43:31.373-04:002017-04-03T16:43:31.373-04:00We were so lucky to have Raymond Burr around for t...We were so lucky to have Raymond Burr around for the time he was in Hollywood. He is one of the actors I would have loved to have met. He seemed to be a total professional actor and a man who cared for so many people. My favorite role is Ironside. He breathed life in the character and created a multi-dimensional man who showed courage and inspired the people around him. The character also inspired me.Sue Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01884072667977354828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-72367558779831772722017-04-03T11:40:04.724-04:002017-04-03T11:40:04.724-04:00Clarifying Bill O's clarification:
It was CBS...Clarifying Bill O's clarification:<br /><br />It was CBS who "believed (Burr's) typecasting"; They wanted him for the (initially) villainous Burger.<br />Burr was looking to break that typing; up to this time, he'd almost never played anything else but a bad guy. Burr agreed to do a test as Burger, providing that he also be allowed to test as Mason. <br />It was one of those tests that caused Erle Stanley Gardner to stand up in the screening room and shout "<i>That's</i> Perry Mason!"<br />In Burr's Burger test, Mason is played by Tod Andrews, a general-purpose actor who was there as a placeholder; at that point (early '56) Fred MacMurray was considered the front-runner for Mason.(Gardner says so in a letter to a friend from that time; it's reprinted in Dorothy B. Hughes's biography of Gardner.)<br />Hopper's Mason test is with Ray Collins as Tragg; apparently Collins was one of the first hires for the series.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527404061764217504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-57531446999616142462017-04-03T09:01:07.933-04:002017-04-03T09:01:07.933-04:00The auditions contained on the Perry anniversary D...The auditions contained on the Perry anniversary DVD set impressed me. It was interesting to see the actors doing their thing for the all-important job. William Hopper did a credible job as Mason. They put a good team together.<br /><br />The first time I showed my daughter Rear Window, she peered at the screen and said "Are you sure that's The Chief?"Caftan Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05936895555808823221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-41147455130183325372017-04-03T06:27:55.306-04:002017-04-03T06:27:55.306-04:00Always read that, believing his own typecasting, h...Always read that, believing his own typecasting, he auditioned for "Ham" Burger. It was only cuz Earl Stanley Garner saw in him the solid, above-board qualities that he created for Perry that Burr was asked to try out for that.<br /><br />And it's not salacious to state that he owed his continuing career to a sympathetic press, who knowingly printed his fabrications of dead wives and sons.Bill Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06041905291496937729noreply@blogger.com