Basil Rathbone Fanwhore @razzlebathrobe - Tumblr Blog

Welcome! I created this blog because I wanted more content of that suave bastard and decided I would make some! You can find ➸ Gifs ➸ Promotional Photos ➸ Behind the Scenes

➸ If you have any requests please let me know! Though it is subject to whether I have the media or not, some is very hard to find! ➸ If you need something tagged (a trigger warning) please let me know

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I was just reading the bit in Daphne du Maurier's memoirs about her teenage crush on Basil and how she completely lost interest in him when she saw him in a straw boater and asdjdhsgs I'm crying I need to see 20-something-year-old Basil looking absolutely stupid in his little straw hat (affectionate)

Yes I found that so amusing! Poor Basil haha

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Basil Rathbone Van Heusen 1954

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Basil Rathbone in Crossroads (1942)

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Basil Rathbone as Baron Wolf von Frankenstein in his laboratory Son of Frankenstein (1939)

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Would've loved to see basil in Jurassic park (though I can't decide if he should play Dr Grant or Ian Malcolm 🤔) just because I think Basil + dinosaurs is a great combo 😌

Also fun fact: basil played prof challenger in a radio version of Arthur Conan Doyle's the lost world which is also about a group of scientists facing off against dinosaurs (which totally proves my point I think)

Oh yes, I can see that! It's been a while since I've seen Jurassic Park. I think I would vote for him as Ian Malcolm for that one scene haha

And that is interesting! I think that does prove your point.

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Basil should've played Dr. Sloper in The Heiress!! He played him on Broadway and even won a Tony for his performance and then he was passed over for the film version 😤😤 Unbelievable smh he deserved so much better (also it would've been so nice to see him and Olivia de Havilland together in a movie again!!)

It really would have been nice to see and Olivia together again! I really hate that Hollywood would pass over stage actors for a more popular film actor in the day.

A picture of Basil as Dr Sloper from the Broadway play

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QUESTION FOR YOU ALL! If you could cast Basil in any movie, what would it be and the role? Can be anything! Could be a modern movie or one he could have starred in during his career. For me, it would be Mr de Winter in Rebecca (1940) or, for something modern, Peter Pan (2003) as Mr Darling/Captain Hook. I think Jason Isaacs has a similar energy to Basil so I could see him taking on a lot of Jason's roles (especially The Patriot). (you can reply or send an ask!)

#musings #also cast that man as a Tolkien elf or Tywin in GoT

Promo Image for Private Number (1936) Basil Rathbone & Loretta Young

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Lobby Card for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

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Sooooooooo hottttttttttt！！

#BEAUTIFUL!#fanart

can we please talk about how basil got arrested for being in a play about lesbians and was pissed off enough about it that he went on to write about it in length in his memoirs almost 40 years later?? i really appreciate that he didn't just pretend that it didn't happen, but continued to bring up the play in later years

(if you've never read the captive, i really recommend it! it's not particularly shocking by our standards ofc, but the ending is quite interesting -- not meant to be a happy ending but it can be read as such!)

YES!

Basil, and his costars, were arrested on February 9th 1927 (nearly 100 years ago!) and were released on bail. Two other plays were also closed, it was a bid by a local politician to try and make point of closing down 'immoral' plays.

Rathbone felt that the closing of the play was a "hideous betrayal, this most infamous example of the imposition of political censorship on a democratic society ever known in the history of responsible creative theater; this cold-blooded unscrupulous sabotage of an important contemporary work of art; this cheap political expedient to gain votes by humiliating and despoiling the right of public opinion to express itself and act upon its considered judgment as respected and respectable citizens" (In and Out of Character, p. 105).