Oral history interview with Basil Rathbone, 1959

Biographical Note

Actor

Scope and Contents

Childhood in South Africa and England; type-casting and publicity; Hollywood life style; role as Sherlock Holmes; effect of political involvement on actors' careers; reminiscences of his wife, Ouida. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967--Interviews.