June 5, 2025 and seven years ago on this day in 2018, the first of these daily Edgar Rice Burroughs posts and drabbles appeared. All of the posts are archived at: https://www.erbzine.com/lupton/
On to today’s business, on this day twenty-seven years ago in 1998, Actress Jeanette Nolan, who voiced Magra for the “Tarzan and the Diamond of Asher” radio serial, died in Los Angeles, California.
Details about the serial and all 39 episodes are available for your listening pleasure at: https://www.erbzine.com/mag31/3140.html
Jeanette was nominated for four Emmy awards. After a stellar radio career, her first film role was Lady MacBeth opposite Orson Wells.
Besides her role in “Tarzan and the Diamond of Asher,” her radio career included “Young Doctor Malone,” “One Man’s Family,” and “The Great Gildersleeve,” one of my favorites.
She made over three hundred television and film appearances, including “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” “The Big Heat,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Dirty Sally,” “Night Gallery,” and “The Man From Uncle.” She was the voice of Norma Bates in the classic film, “Psycho.”
There aren’t many personal quotations attributed to Jeanette Nolan, but there are several from her films and television appearances. The drabble for today, “He Was A Bad Boy,” from her voiceover as Norma Bates in Psycho because after all, a boy’s best friend is his mother.
“It's sad, when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son. But I couldn't allow them to believe that I’d commit murder. They'll put him away now, as I should have years ago. He was always bad, and in the end, he intended to tell them I killed those girls and that man... as if I could do anything but just sit and stare. They're probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. They'll see and they'll know, and they'll say, "Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..."
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