1931's Frankenstein is an undisputed classic, bested only by its own sequel, Bride of Frankenstein, in 1935. The two films get a lot of love, well-deserved at that, and cast a long shadow over their ...

With his long slender features visible under a deerstalker hat and a smoking pipe in hand, actor Basil Rathbone is as synonymous with Sherlock Holmes as Baker street. One of Britain’s first stars of ...

With the Robert Downey films creating a renewed interest in Sherlock Holmes, the folks at UCLA and MPI have hit upon a lovely bit of synergy: assembling the Basil Rathbone collection of Holmes ...

Our Old News about Ouida Bergere Rathbone (18??-1974) began with a Little Rock girl named Eula May Branch whose acting ambitions led to a significant enough career writing silent movies. But she was ...

When it comes to setting the scene for a Sherlock Holmes film, it's hard to imagine anyone one-upping the masterful, Oscar-nominated art direction in Guy Ritchie's 2009 take on Arthur Conan Doyle's ...

Sir Basil Rathbone, KBE, MC, Kt (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967), was an English actor. He rose to prominence in England as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in over 70 films, primarily ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rathbone - celebrated by many as the 'real' Holmes - has told how Sherlock was a curse that ruined his credibility as an actor British actor Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes The Hound of ...