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#48: The Case of the
Purple Woman
Original Airdate: 12/06/58

Summary Edit

From The Perry Mason TV Show Book
Cigar-smoking art collector Rufus Varner claims to own an original "Van Hooten" called The Purple Woman. He's too embarrassed to admit he was sold a fake by art dealer Milo Gerard and Aaron Hubble, a burnt-out, boozed-up painter. Gerard's wife, Evelyn, suspects her husband will try to pin the fraud on her. She needs Perry's advice and later his courtroom expertise when Milo is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect.

There is a classic scene in this episode: In a close-up of Perry discussing the case with his client in jail, the light's reflection caught in his eye becomes a gleaming little triangle; the shot is held for some time and has an intense effect.

Credits Edit

Cast

George Macready as Milo Girard
Bethel Leslie as Evelyn Girard
Robert H. Harris as Aaron Hubble
Rhys Williams as Rufus Varner
Doris Singleton as Doris Andrews
Donald Murphy as Wayne Gordon
Stephen Bekassy as Laslo Kovac
Edwin Jerome as Judge
Shirley Houser as Waitress

Trivia Edit

CARS: No cars. From The Cars by Greg Cockerill.

+There is a spectator in the courtroom who appears in several other trials. He is a dark complected man with a pencil thin mustache who resembles Leo Carrillo. He is wearing Hamilton Burger's gold tie with black stripes that was described in Episode #22, TCOT Fugitive Nurse. He wore this same tie the year before in the courtroom in Episode #32, TCOT Substitute Face. All during the trial in this episode, he whispers to the woman seated next to him, thereby drawing attention to himself. Submitted by PaulDrake 33.

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