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Candid Photos, Page Three
Candid Photos taken at Rathbone parties
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The first ten photographs on this page were taken at the Rathbone's Eleventh Wedding Anniversary party held at the Victor
Hugo Restaurant in Beverly Hills. Guests came dressed as famous
couples; Basil and Ouida were dressed as Emperor Franz Josef and
Empress Elizabeth of Austria. |
Ouida and Basil |
Ouida and Basil |
Basil greeting Marlene Dietrich |
Basil with Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Robinson
(dressed as Napoleon and Josephine) |
Guests at the party |
Basil and a young guest
(photo by Charles Rhodes) |
Basil with "Moses" |
Gene Raymond, Jeanette McDonald, Ouida and
Basil |
Basil, with Dolores Del Rio and her husband
Cedric Gibbons (art director at MGM) |
Basil, Cedric Gibbons, Dolores Del Rio, and Ouida |
Arthur Rubinstein's birthday party
from left: Mr. and Mrs. Rubinstein, Ouida Rathbone, the Grand
Duchess, Basil (behind her), Marlene Dietrich, and Heifitz |
Basil with George Jessel at a dinner. (Love the wall
fresco!) |
Below are four photos from the wedding of Basil's
son Rodion Rathbone to Caroline Fischer. |
Rodion Rathbone's wedding party: Ouida R., Mrs.
Cedric Frances, Constance Collier, Caroline and Rodion, Walter
Wurdeman, Cedric Frances and Basil Rathbone. |
Basil with son Rodion and his bride Caroline, 1938 |
Rodion Rathbone's wedding dinner: Caroline, Rodion,
Ouida, Basil, Constance Collier, and Walter Wurdeman, 1938 |
Basil, with son Rodion and bride Caroline |
Basil and Ouida with Irving Thalberg and his wife
Norma Shearer at a party in the Venetian ballroom of the Beverly
Hills Hotel, July 1929. |
1938 wedding party
Ouida, Mary Pickford, Buddy Rogers, Jeannette MacDonald, Basil,
Gene Raymond |
Basil having a good time with Miriam Hopkins
and others |
with more friends |
Basil with Baroness Natvarry and Max Rhinehart
at a dinner party in honor of Max |
Basil with friends at a party. Couple on right
are Jeanette McDonald and Gene Raymond. |
with Charlie Chaplin |
Rathbone pouring champagne for guests Dolores Del
Rio, Gary Cooper and Lili Damita |
Hedy Lamarr chats with Basil, Mary Lee Epling
Hartford, and her fiancé Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
Canapes, anyone? |
Rathbone with Olivia DeHavilland, David Niven, Nigel Bruce and Errol
Flynn |
Marlene Dietrich dancing with host Basil at a 1939 party the
Rathbones gave in honor of Arthur Rubenstein. David O. Selznick can
be seen in the background. |
The Rathbones and guests (including David Niven and Merle Oberon) |
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close-ups of Basil from above photos |
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Leslie Howard and Rathbone |
Basil, kissing the hand of the Grand Duchess Marie
of Russia |
Rathbone, with ?, Charles Chaplin and Arthur
Rubinstein |
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