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#37: The Case of the
Black-eyed Blonde
Original Airdate: 06/14/58

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
When Perry is visited by Diana Reynolds, a pretty blonde with a black eye and wearing an overcoat covering a bathrobe, the lawyer suspects he's in for an unusual case.

He is....

Credits Edit

Opening

Starring Raymond Burr
In Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of The Black-eyed Blonde
Della Street, William Hopper, William Talman, Ray Collins

Trailing

Directed by Roger Kay
Written by Gene Wang
Ben Brady Producer
Produced by CBS Television in association with Paisano Productions
Gail Patrick Jackson Executive Producer
Sam White Associate Producer

Raymond Burr as Perry Mason
Barbara Hale as Della Street
William Hopper as Paul Drake
William Talman as Hamilton Burger
Ray Collins as Lt. Tragg

Cast

Whitney Blake as Diana Reynolds
Irene Hervey as Helen Bartlett
R. G. Armstrong as Matthew Bartlett
Ludwig Stossel as Otto Kessler
Jan Merlin as Tony Davis
Phyllis Coates as Norma Carter
Judith Ames as Marian Shaw
Grandon Rhodes as Judge
Francis De Sales as Dr. Rose
Jack Lomas as Sgt. Brewster
Frank Sully as Cop
Joe Dominguez as Carlos Figueroa
Casey Peters as Bobby Carter

Crew

Gene Wang Story Editor
Production Supervisor J. Paul Popkin
Director of Photography Frank Redman, A.S.C.
Art Direction Lyle Wheeler, Lewis Creber
Assistant Director Robert G. Stone
Editorial Supervision Art Seid, A.C.E.
Film Editor Paul Weatherwax, A.C.E.
Makeup Mel Berns
Hair Stylist Annabell, S.C.H.
Wardrobe Supervision Dick James
Set Decoration Walter M. Scott, Charles Q. Vassar
Properties Ray Thompson
Production Sound Mixer Roy Meadows
Script Supervisor Cosmo Genovese

This has been a CBS Television Network Production
Filmed in Hollywood by TCF Television Productions, Inc.

Trivia Edit

CARS: Late 40s Oldsmobile coupe, 1956 Chevrolet 150 4dr sedan, light color (Taxi), 1958 Pontiac Bonneville convertible, white, white top up, 1958 Cadillac convertible, black, all-white interior, top down (Mason), Cameos: 1958 Ford 4dr wagon, 2-tone: dark & medium colors, 1955 Chevrolet Nomad, dark color w/ white top. From The Cars by Greg Cockerill.

It seems to me that the house seen near the beginning is the same house seen in #62, TCOT Howling Dog. Submitted by Charles Richmond, 10/23/07. Posted by daveb. Some pictures here.

+The house that Charles Richmond has pictured from #37, TCOT Black Eyed Blonde, is the same house used in #5, TCOT Sulky Girl. You can see the tree that Judge Purley parks by on the circle driveway, and you can see the windows that Graves looked through.

+This is the first of three appearances on Perry by Phyllis Coates, playing Norma Carter. I know all baby boomers remember Phyllis Coates as the original television Lois Lane in the 1952-1953 initial season of Superman. Phyllis, whose birth name was Gypsie, is yet living at the age of 82 and in 2008 appeared at a nostolgia event. Submitted by PaulDrake 33. 06/25/09

Comments Edit

One of the few times we see a death bed confession by the murderer. Submitted by PaulDrake33.

The scene with the murderess attempting to flee in the jeep is odd. The back of the jeep is covered with what appears to be a blanket so we can't see what's behind the jeep. If the jeep were moving, I'm afraid this blanket would be blowing all over the place, but it doesn't. My only explanation for this rather odd device is that there was some reason they couldn't do rear-screen projection. Submitted by billp. 29 October 2009.

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