The Basil Rathbone Library

I love to browse through used book stores, but sometimes there are so many books, and boxes and boxes of old magazines, that I feel overwhelmed. If I only knew specifically which issue of a particular magazine had an article about Basil Rathbone, I could ask the clerk to get that box down from the top shelf. So, in an attempt to solve my own problems, I began to organize a list of all the books and all the magazine articles that are about Rathbone. This is a "work in progress" as I continue to discover more sources of information and add them to the list. I welcome your suggestions of sources to be added, and your corrections, too. E-mail: gisbourne@basilrathbone.net.

The Library consists of three sections:

The Library has grown so much that one page takes too long to load. Therefore I have moved the Books and Magazine Articles to separate pages. The list of Websites is directly below. 

Websites

The Rathbone Register has a nice biography of Basil Rathbone, information on family, dates of marriages, births, and deaths.  It is an archive of information on the Rathbone family, would especially be interesting to geneologists, and those of you who are related to Basil Rathbone.

Greg Goldsmith's page, has a synopsis of all the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, together with his own personal rating for each film.  Includes pictures of film posters and photos, a mini-biography, filmography,  and info. on purchasing the Holmes films on videotape.

"Elementary, my dear Watson!: The Basil and Nigel Holmes page" 
Excellent web site has biographies of Rathbone and Bruce, a filmography, image gallery, sound library, and links to other Sherlock Holmes pages. It has LOTS of pictures of Rathbone and Bruce. The sound bytes are from Sherlock Holmes films.

"Rathbone's Finest Hour" -- an article written by Pat Ward, which appears on www.sherlock-holmes.com/featur4.htm . The article concerns the 1939 film "The Hound of the Baskervilles."

Sherlock Holmes

There are far too many Sherlock Holmes sites to begin listing them all here. One might begin with two Sherlock Holmes web rings: "The Insidious Ring of Moriarty" and "Baker Street."

Everything the web offers about Sherlock Holmes is on Sherlockian.net.
Chris Redmond's extensive site features a photo of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce right on the home page. The site includes a page about Holmes in movies, radio, stage and TV, info. on various actors who have played Holmes, and links to other pages that have info about Holmes on stage, film, radio and TV.

Bob Byrnes has a web site with many pictures of Rathbone and an essay entitled "The Definitive Holmes." http://www.geocities.com/upabob/IndexRathbone.htm

"Holmes on Screen" -- an essay by Damian Magee that examines the popular Rathbone/Bruce series of Holmes movies.

E-mail me to suggest a link to be added.

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All original content is Marcia Jessen, 2007