BASIL RATHBONE - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 276600

BASIL RATHBONE
Large (10x13½) studio portrait of the Academy Award-nominated British actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Jess Hoaglin -/Sincerely/Basil Rathbone/Thank you so much for/your kind letter of good wishes". B/w with sepia hue, 10x13½. Photograph by Irving Childnoff, New York (imprint at lower right and stamped on verso). British actor Basil Rathbone (1892-1967), 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 1939-1946. Surface creased, primarily at background. Minor "silvering" at background and at lapel of suit. Paper scuffs at lower portion on suit, minor paper loss at lower left corner. Slightly rippled at upper edge. Overall, fine and impressive.