From: radioactiveseattle@hotmail.com   
      
   So glad to see cited above the woefully-underrated Robert Stephens, who   
   was Dame Smith's third-of-four wives.   
      
   The late Stephens's turn as the fictive Brit sleuth in Billy Wilder's   
   directed-and-co-written "The Secret Life of Sherlock Holmes" was   
   magnificent.  In my always inconsequential view, it might even have   
   eclipsed the almost-definitive-by-default* frequent portrayals by Basil   
   Rathbone.   
      
   And for a TOTAL switch on the legendary character, there's always the   
   hilarious (with a brilliantly-premised script) alternate-universe   
   flipping of the storied Holmes & Watson team in "Without a   
   Clue"...wherein Ben Kingsley's Dr. Watson is secretly the brains of the   
   team while the ever-versatile Michael Cain--at his comic best--plays a   
   dullard actor PRETENDING to be Holmes for the gullible- London-public's   
   consumption.   
      
   BRYAN STYBLE/Florida   
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   * That is, I wonder if Rathbone would have been, by the '50s and '60s,   
   so widely lauded as the "definitive" cinematic Holmes had he not been in   
   SO many Doyle-inspired films--14 in all, as WELL as playing him in a   
   series on my favorite medium, radio.   
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stephens   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Rathbone   
      
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