The Basil Rathbone Gallery

Also from Volume II of the A. & M. Wix  "Cinema Cavalcade" set:

Card #35, depicting a scene from "The Garden of Allah."

This is card #212, depicting a scene from "The Dawn Patrol." The card is approximately 2.6 x 4 in. (6.5 x 10 cm.).

Card #135  depicts a scene from "The Hound of the Baskervilles." This card is 2.25 x 3 inches (5.5 x 7.25 cm.).

#237 depicts a scene from "The Adventures of Robin Hood." The card is approximately 2.6 x 4 in. (6.5 x 10 cm.).

Two more cards from "The Adventures of Robin Hood" are shown below. They may be from a different series.

This card is #3 in a series called Great Movie Memories.

It features Basil Rathbone, "the Silver Screen's Greatest Swordsman" as Sir Guy of Gisbourne, in "The Adventures of Robin Hood."

This is card #14 from a 36 card set called "More Hollywood Characters," from Kitchen Sink Press, 1992. Each card features an illustration of a Hollywood star on the front, and that star's biography on the back. Each card measures approx. 2.6 x 3.6 in. (6.4 x 8.9 cm.). The back of the card has a brief biography of Rathbone. The illustration is by R. Geary.  (Click on image to view larger version.)

This card picturing Rathbone as Richard III from "Tower of London" is from Michael H. Price's "Hollywood Horrors," classic bogeymen trading card set. It is #26 of a 36 card set of classic horror film stars, issued in 1993 by Shel-Tone Publications.  Each card measures approx. 2.6 x 3.6 in. (6.4 x 8.9 cm.). The back of the card has a brief biography of Rathbone.  (Click on image to view larger version.)

This postcard, copied from the original poster (in Spanish) for "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," was issued by Mayfair Cards as part of their "Magic of the Movies" series in the 1990s. (Click on image to view larger version.)

This is a postcard of Rathbone as he appeared in "Son of Frankenstein," printed in 1939. (Click on image to view larger version.)

This postcard with a printed signature was produced in the mid-1940s by Universal Studios.  (Click on image to view larger version.)

Pictured are some cards from a set of fifty-four playing cards (two jokers included in the set) based on some of the most popular caricatures of Al Hirschfeld. There are fourteen images in all, one for each number in the deck. Celebrities included in the drawings are Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, W.C. Fields, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamarr, Bob Hope, Barbara Streisand, Basil Rathbone, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Frank Sinatra, Gene Tierney, Sean Connery, Myrna Loy, William Powell, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Audrey Hepburn, Clark Gable, and Vivian Leigh.

Nine celebrities are pictured on this 1985 card from Trivia Inc.:

1. David Niven

2. Marvin Gaye

3. Sidney Greenstreet

4. Dirk Bogarde

5. Gene Autry

6. Sal Mineo

7. Alan Ladd

8. Basil Rathbone

9. Sam Cooke

The size is approximately 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. The back of the card has questions and answers about each celebrity.