- Claire Dodd, The Case of the Curious Bride, 1934. After creating Della Street – Girl Friday of the lawyer-detective – in the first Perry Mason movie, The Case of the Howling Dog, 1934, poor Trenholme was replaced in the second by Dodd… The Bride’s husband was Donald Woods, who became Mason in the sixth case and was so defective, he killed the franchise.
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