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It's elementary, my dear Watson
Did you know that a grand total of 67 actors have played the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in film and television and on stage and radio? I didn’t think so.
My favorite has to be Basil Rathbone, although I didn’t see him on the big screen until years after his movies came out in the late 1930s and much of the 1940s. Several other actors I saw in the role played Homes well, but the difference was that Rathbone was Holmes. When he put on that curious, double-billed “deerstalker” hat and clenched that rather long, gracefully curved pipe in his teeth, you were looking at the world-famous sleuth, not the well-known actor. After reading all of the Sir Arthur Conant Doyle Holmes’ novels, the moment I saw Rathbone on the screen, I knew the producers had their man.
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