Editing Basil Rathbone (section)

=== Theatre ===
[[File:Rathbone-Barretts-of-Wimpole-Street.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Rathbone as [[Robert Browning]] in [[Katharine Cornell]]'s 1933–1934 touring production of ''[[The Barretts of Wimpole Street]]'']]

During the Summer Festival of 1919, he appeared at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] with the New Shakespeare Company playing Romeo, Cassius, Ferdinand in ''[[The Tempest]]'' and Florizel in ''[[The Winter's Tale]]''; in October he was at London's [[Sondheim Theatre|Queen's Theatre]] as the aide de camp in ''Napoleon'', and in February 1920 he was at the [[Savoy Theatre]] in the title role in ''[[Peter Ibbetson (play)|Peter Ibbetson]]'' with huge success.

During the 1920s, Rathbone appeared regularly in Shakespearean and other roles on the British stage. He began to travel and appeared at the [[James Earl Jones Theatre|Cort Theatre]], [[New York City|New York]], in October 1923 in a production of [[Ferenc Molnár|Molnár]]'s play ''[[The Swan (play)|The Swan]]'' opposite [[Eva Le Gallienne]], which made him a star on Broadway. He toured in the United States in 1925, appearing in [[San Francisco]] in May and the [[Lyceum Theatre (Broadway)|Lyceum Theatre]], New York, in October. He was in the US again in 1927 and 1930 and again in 1931, when he appeared on stage with [[Ethel Barrymore]]. He continued his stage career in Britain, [[returning]] late in 1934 to the US, where he appeared with [[Katharine Cornell]] in several plays.

Rathbone was once arrested in 1926 along with every other member of the cast of ''[[The Captive (play)|The Captive]]'', a play in which his character's wife left him for another woman. Though the charges were eventually dropped, Rathbone was very angry about the censorship because he believed that [[homosexuality]] needed to be brought into the open.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://outhistory.org/wiki/New_York_Times:_Reaction_to_%22The_Captive%22,_1926-1927 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415190819/http://outhistory.org/wiki/New_York_Times:_Reaction_to_%22The_Captive%22,_1926-1927 |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 April 2013 |title=The New York Times: Reaction to 'The Captive', 1926–1927 – OutHistory |work=outhistory.org |year=2012 |access-date=25 September 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.basilrathbone.net/biography/ |title=Basil Rathbone, Master of Stage and Screen: Biography |publisher=Basilrathbone.net |access-date=2014-08-23}}</ref>
[[File:Romeo and Juliet lobby card 2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|right|With [[John Barrymore]] and [[Leslie Howard]] in ''Romeo and Juliet'', 1936]]