The Basil Rathbone Gallery

Candid Photos, Page Three

 Candid Photos taken at Rathbone parties

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
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Basil greeting Marlene Dietrich
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Basil with Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Robinson (dressed as Napoleon and Josephine)

Guests at the party
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Basil and a young guest

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Basil with "Moses"


Gene Raymond, Jeanette McDonald, Ouida and Basil
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Basil, with Dolores Del Rio and her husband Cedric Gibbons (art director at MGM)

 Basil, Cedric Gibbons, Dolores Del Rio, and Ouida
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with Charlie Chaplin
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Arthur Rubinstein's birthday party
from left: Mr. and Mrs. Rubinstein, Ouida Rathbone, the Grand Duchess, Basil (behind her), Marlene Dietrich, and Heifitz
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Basil with George Jessel at a dinner. (Love the wall fresco!)
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Rodion Rathbone's wedding dinner: Caroline, Rodion, Ouida, Basil, Constance Collier, and Walter Wurdeman, 1938
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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 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.
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1938 wedding party
Ouida, Mary Pickford, Buddy Rogers, Jeannette MacDonald, Basil, Gene Raymond
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Basil having a good time with Miriam Hopkins and others
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with more friends
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Basil with Baroness Natvarry and Max Rhinehart at a dinner party in honor of Max
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Basil with friends at a party. Couple on right are Jeanette McDonald and Gene Raymond.


Rathbone with guests Pat Patterson (Mrs. Charles Boyer), Jack Benny and Myrna Loy, 1942


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?

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.
 

Rathbone with Olivia DeHavilland, David Niven, Nigel Bruce and Errol Flynn
 
   

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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