November 9,1957 [8] "The Case
of the Crimson Kiss"
Director Christian Nyby
TeleplayJowl Murcott,
Walter Doniger, and Milton Geiger
StoryErle Stanley Gardner's short story
A jealous woman-bitter over her
roommate's impending marriage to her former
boyfriend-attempts to pin a murder on the roomie. Perry
and Della are the first to find the murdered man, an act
that gets them in very hot water with Tragg and the
police. The stiff had a lipstick stain on his forehead,
and the episode takes a slightly kinky turn when Perry
and Paul discuss the possibility that the crimson kiss
may have been put there by (gasp!) a man. Frances
("Aunt Bea" *) Bavier plays an old friend of
Perry's.
This, the eighth Mason story to be
broadcast, was the first to be adapted not from an Erle
Stanley Gardner novel, but from one of his short stories.
Anita BonsaiJean Willes
Fay AllisonSue England
(defendant)
Louise MarlowFrances Bavier
Shirley TannerGloria McGhee
judge RandolphFrank Wilcox
Carver L. ClementJohn Holland
(victim)
* Webmaster's Note: Jim Heinrich
points out that Ms. Bavier was actually "Aunt
Bee."
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