BASIL RATHBONE - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 137395
Price: $650.00
BASIL RATHBONE
Small signed b/w photo of Rathbone from the shoulders up in a striped
suit-and-tie
Photograph signed "Basil Rathbone". B/w sepia-toned, 3¼x5¼
overall, 3¼x5 image, one surface, printed on cardstock. Captioned: "Basil
Rathbone". 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, silvered, creased and
bowed. First name of signature is faint but legible. Adhesive residue on verso.
Otherwise in fine condition.
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