From: bob.martin@excite.com   
      
   On 27 Sep 2024 at 22:24:18, bryan_styble    
   wrote:   
   > So glad to see cited above the woefully-underrated Robert Stephens, who   
   > was Dame Smith's third-of-four wives.   
      
   FGS, it's Dame Maggie, NEVER Dame  (or Sir ).   
      
   > 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.   
   > ================https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stephens   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Rathbone   
   > .   
      
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