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.

This story is from the July 20, 2020 edition of Globe.

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