BASIL RATHBONE - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 257423
Price: $450.00
BASIL RATHBONE
Small signed b/w profile photo of Rathbone from the neck up in a
suit-and-tie
Inscribed photo signed "To Mr Abell/Basil Rathbone". With
pencil notations on verso in unknown hand. B/w, 4x4¾ overall, 3¼x4¼ image, one
surface. Rathbone (1892-1967, born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone in
Johannesburg, South Africa), who appeared on Broadway 23 times and won
the 1948 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (The Heiress), is
also known for his film work in period costume dramas. He was nominated for
Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for playing Tybalt in Romeo and
Juliet (1936) and King Louis XVI in If I Were King (1938). Rathbone
also appeared as Murdstone in David Copperfield (1934), Evremonde in
Tale of Two Cities (1935), Pontius Pilate in The Last Days of
Pompeii (1936), Karenin in Anna Karenina (1936) and Guy of Gisbourne
in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). In 1939, he was cast as
Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles, the first of 14 screen
appearances as Conan Doyle's master detective. Rathbone also played
Holmes on radio from 1939 to 1946. Lightly toned and bowed. Signature is
lightly smeared, and pen skipped while signing it, but it's still legible. Light
tear near upper right corner. Light scratches and impressions on image (not
visible head-on). Otherwise in fine condition.
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