PERRY MASON'S WEB OF LIES!
Globe|July 20, 2020
Raymond Burr invented wives & a tragic son to hide he was gay
PERRY MASON'S WEB OF LIES!

RUGGED Raymond Burr, who skyrocketed to fame as TV’s super lawyer Perry Mason, was guilty of perjury — for lying about his secret double life as a homosexual!

A new HBO series paints the fictional lawyer as a seedy, boozing 1930s gumshoe, but six-foot-two, 350-pound Burr played the defense lawyer as a sharp-dressed straight shooter in the drama that ran from 1957 to 1966 and was closely based on author Erle Stanley Gardner’s hit mystery novels.

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