This week’s mystery movie has been the 1937 Warner Bros. picture “The Case of the Stuttering Bishop,” with Donald Woods, Ann Dvorak, Anne Nagel and Linda Perry. It was directed by William Clemens from a screenplay by Kenneth Gamet and Don Ryan, based on a story by Erle Stanley Gardner.
It doesn’t appear that the film was ever commercially released on VHS or DVD.
For Monday, we have a distinguished mystery guest.
Update: This is Gordon Hart.
He may be LBJ, FDR, RR, Jimmy Hoffa, Humphrey Bogart, James Baldwin, Woodrow Wilson or Father Coughlin. But probably not.
And for Tuesday, we have a mystery gent in a double-breasted suit. Feel free to ignore Back of the Head Guy.
Update: This is Eddy Chandler.
Brain Trust roll call: Lee Ann, Megan and Thom (Monday’s mystery gent) and Don Danard (Monday’s mystery gent. Charles Kjelland is on the right track but is barely out of the station.
Google will be of no help to you as our mystery guest is not Vladimir Putin, John D. Rockefeller, Malcolm X, Harold Wilson, Earl Warren, George Bernard Shaw or Mark Rothko.
And for Wednesday, we have a mystery gent. Fear not, we will get to the mystery women in the cast soon enough.
Update: This is Edward McWade.
Brain Trust roll call: Mike Hawks (Tuesday’s mystery gent) and Don Danard (Tuesday’s mystery gent).
And for Thursday (posting early because I have an appointment tomorrow morning), we have a mystery gent.
Update: This is Donald Woods.
Brain Trust roll call: Patrick (mystery movie and mystery guests).
And for Friday, we have Jacqueline Bisset in “Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?”
Update: This is Ann Dvorak in her last picture for Warner Bros.
Brain Trust roll call: Howard Mandelbaum (mystery movie and mystery guests), Sheila (Thursday’s mystery leading man and mystery background person), Mary Mallory (Thursday’s mystery leading man), Mike Hawks (mystery movie and mystery guests), Jenny M (mystery movie and Thursday’s mystery leading man), Lee Ann, Megan and Thom (mystery movie and Wednesday’s and Thursday’s mystery guests) and Barbara Klein (mystery movie and mystery guests).
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Looks like a judge in another Perry Mason episode, don’t know which!
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This is NOT Paul Ford.
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Well if it isn’t Paul Ford, and I take you at your word, it’s his drop-dead double.
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Paul Ford is a good guess. But alas, it’s not.
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Though he may have served as the mold. Would have to hear him speak through to his nose in order to fully judge.
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Could this be Gordon Hall?
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First name that popped into my head was Gordon Hart. So I’ll go with that.
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You’ll think I’m barmy, but it looks like Irving Bacon…
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I don’t think you’re barmy. But it’s not Irving. 🙂
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Eddie Chandler takes the stand.
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I’m pretty sure the latest Mystery Man is Eddie Chandler.
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I´d like to know what Tuesday´s mystery gent has in his hands. Perhaps an impossibly early prototype of a mini iPod? 🙂
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It is People’s Exhibit No. 1.
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Funny thing, my closest (and doubtless incorrect) guesses are Joseph Schenk on Monday and Sam Goldwyn on Tuesday.
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Very interesting, but also verrry far off.
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Gordon Hart, Eddy Chandler and Edward McWade in The Case of the Stuttering Bishop from 1937. (Back of the Head Guy might be Charles Wilson.)
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Donald Woods as Perry Mason in THE CASE OF THE STUTTERING BISHOP
Monday: Gordon Hart
Tuesday: Eddy Chandler
Wednesday: Edward McWade
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Donald Woods for Thursday, and the gent to the left of him George Lloyd?
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Donald Woods today.
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Thursday’s guest sure looks a lot like My Little Margie’s Vern Albright aka Charles Ferrell.
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Alas, I’m afraid not.
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Gig Young.
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Alas, I’m afraid not.
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Thurs gent looks like Robert Sterling.
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Alas, no.
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And this is not Don Ameche…
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Now I see the light. CASE OF THE STUTTERING BISHOP 1937. Gordon Hart, Edward McWade and Donald Woods.
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Donald Woods in The Case of the Stuttering Bishop.
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I’m going to say Robert Osterloh for Tuesday. I only remember his name from when I lived in Pittsburgh, where he had a little celebrity. It’s not 711 Ocean Drive, and I don’t see Chet Huntley as himself, which would be ‘I Cheated the Law’, which I have seen since 1980. Those are the only pictures I remember him in.
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The man in the witness box looks like Werner Klemperer, (JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBURG,?), and the man with the mustache is Donald Wood. Is the lady Gail Patrick?
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Thursday’s gent is Donald Wood; Wednesday is Edward McWade. The movie is The Case of the Stuttering Bishop.
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Gordon Hart, Eddy Chandler, Edward McWade, Donald Woods
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Ann Dvorak and the Case of the Stuttering Bishop.
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The wonderful Ann Dvorak today.
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Ann Dvorak, finishing out her Warners contract.
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Ann Dvorak
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Enter co-star Ann Dvorak.
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Thurs is Donald Woods – the film is The Case of the Stuttering Bishop. Friday is Ann Dvorak.
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Ann Dvorak was Della Street? Awreet!
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Better late than never. It’s “The Case of the Stuttering Bishop” (the 1937 version, not the 1959 version, which I would have probably been able to identify on Monday!).
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The bishop has a great last name!
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THE CASE OF THE STUTTERING BISHOP is available on DVD as part of the Warner Archive’s “Perry Mason: The Original Warner Bros. Movies Collection,” which includes all six of the Perry Mason movies from the 1930s.
Incidentally, Donald Woods had a supporting role in the first Perry Mason movie THE CASE OF THE HOWLING DOG (1934, with Warren William).
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Ah, so it is. Thank you. And here is the link.
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Oops! It was THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS BRIDE that Donald Woods previously appeared in, not HOWLING DOG. My bad.
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