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In "Juliets I Have Known," Basil Rathbone wrote about several actresses who played Juliet to his Romeo. He described two of them as "lovely" and one as "beautiful." With regard to Norma Shearer, Basil wrote:
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Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was an Anglo-South African actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films.
Rathbone first played the role of Romeo in 1915, with the New Shakespeare Company. It was his favorite Shakespeare role, so he eagerly accepted Katherine Cornell's invitation to play Romeo opposite her Juliet. During the U.S. tour Orson Welles played the part of Mercutio.
Jun 9, 2024 · Basil Rathbone (born June 13, 1892, Johannesburg, S.Af.—died July 21, 1967, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was a British character actor whose portrayal of Sherlock Holmes highlighted a long and varied stage and screen career.
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Jan 7, 2013 · My grandmother told me a story long ago of taking the train to New York City to see Katherine Cornell and Basil Rathbone in “Romeo and Juliet”: The first time he played Romeo, Rathbone was twenty-one – which I think would have been around 1913.
The cast at a reading of the script. From left: Edna May Oliver, George Cukor, Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone, Violet Kemble-Cooper, William Henry, and Henry Kolker. Rathbone takes a break during the filming of "Romeo and Juliet". rehearsing with Fred Cavens.
Jan 12, 2012 · Rathbone’s portrayal of Tybalt in George Cukor’s 1936 screen version of Romeo and Juliet in support of Norman Shearer and Leslie Howard earned him his first Oscar nomination. The swordfight in which he kills John Barrymore ws the only one he ever won on screen in his long career.
