Rathbone To Play Sherlock Holmes Without Make-up
POR his role of Sherlock Holmes in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles” at 20th Century-Fox, all Basil Rathbone had to do was to shave off his moustache and grow a pair of sideburns. Experts at the studio, after studying innumerable drawings of the famous fictional detective made when the Holmes tales were first published, declared that physically Rathbone approximated the master detective closely. He has the aquiline nose, the high forehead, the piercing eyes, the long face and the lean, spare frame that is always associated with Holmes, and consequently he uses no make-up of any kind in his portrayal.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 14
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111Rathbone To Play Sherlock Holmes Without Make-up Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 14
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