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Another 'Perry Mason' case solved

Tribune News Service
August 16, 2021 at 8:13PM
January 20, 1960 Gail Patrick Jackson, former movie actress and currently the Executive Producer of the "Perry Mason" television show, reads the Finch-Tregoff trial transcript during a recess. The former actress is a frequent visitor at the murder trial of Dr. Bernard Finch and his red-haired mistress, Carole Tregoff. March 11, 1960 June 9, 1960 July 1, 1960 UPI Telephoto; Minneapolis Star Tribune
Gail Patrick Jackson, former movie actress and the executive producer of the “Perry Mason” television show. (UPI Telephoto/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Q: I am a longtime fan of Raymond Burr's "Perry Mason" (1958-66). Was the executive producer, Gail Patrick Jackson, the same as the actress, Gail Patrick, who appeared in such movies as "My Man Godfrey" with William Powell and Carole Lombard?

A: Yes. Ephraim Katz's "The Film Encyclopedia" notes that Patrick was "particularly effective in cold, often nasty 'other woman' roles." She quit acting in the late 1940s following her (third) marriage to Thomas Cornwall Jackson, who was also the literary agent of Erle Stanley Gardner, the novelist who had created the Perry Mason character. The Jacksons made a deal with Gardner for a "Perry Mason" TV series, where Gail Jackson was executive producer — the rare woman in that role in those days. Gail Patrick Jackson died of leukemia in 1980.

Familiar song, movie

Q: There is a terrific song at the end of the movie "Human Capital." Would you happen to know its name and artist?

A: The song is called "Heartbeating" by the band Bodies of Water. "Human Capital," for those of you tuning in late, is a 2019 movie starring Liev Schreiber and Marisa Tomei; it's a reworking of "Il Capitale Umano," a 2013 Italian film.

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