Well, 45 years ago today, July 21 1967, Basil Rathbone died in NYC, on what was also his son Rodion’s 52nd birhtday.
To mark this sombre day for us Rathbone fans I’m going back to a film I talked about recently. Yes! thanks to Lolita at Lolita’s Classics I am now the proud owner read more
A while ago I stumbled on this blogpost…
ttp://laszlosonlex.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/basil-rathbone-1892-1967-today-august-1.html
It’s a reprint of the sales catalogue for the auction of the Rathbone estate following Ouida’s death in 1975, and is -surprisingly enough – one read more
Did anyone know the Baz had six images at the National Portrait Gallery in England? Nope, neither did I. In fact I stumbled on them totally by chance while doing some esoteric search for the stage production of Peter Ibbetson that BR starred in back in 1920.
But he does indeed have six pics at read more
The Mad Doctor
The Mad Doctor (aka A Date with Destiny) has to be the best Basil Rathbone movie I’ve never seen. The Baz playing gorgeous but insane serial wife-killer, with the amazing Martin Kosleck as his heavily implied gay lover, John Howard as Ellen Drew’s nice but boring rescu read more
the Baz & Wendy Hiller in “The Heiress” Ok, might as well make the first post a bit left-fieldish. I’ve been preparing for this blog for a while, asking friends and collectors for tidbits and morsels, doing a lot of web exploring, which can occasionally bring up nicely une read more
