Editing Basil Rathbone (section)

==Personal life==
Rathbone married actress Ethel Marion Foreman (1887–1976) in 1914. They had one son, Rodion Rathbone (1915–1996), who had a brief Hollywood career under the name John Rodion. The couple divorced in 1926. In the same year, he married writer [[Ouida Bergère]]; their infant child died in 1928. In 1939, the couple adopted a daughter, Cynthia Rathbone (1939–1969). The American actor [[Jackson Rathbone]] is a distant relation.<ref>{{cite news|last=Millar |first=John |url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-interviews/2010/08/08/vampire-star-jackson-rathbone-on-his-family-ties-to-legendary-swashbuckler-86908-22473663 |title=Jackson Rathbone profile, detailing blood relationship to Basil Rathbone |work=Daily Record|location=Glasgow |date=2010-08-08 |access-date=2014-08-23}}</ref>

Rathbone bore a strong resemblance to his cousin, the actor [[Frank Benson (actor)|Frank Benson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.basilrathbone.net/biography/ |title=Basil Rathbone, Master of Stage and Screen: Biography |publisher=Basilrathbone.net |access-date=2020-08-06}}</ref> He was a first cousin once removed of the  campaigning independent British MP [[Eleanor Rathbone]].

During Rathbone's Hollywood career Ouida Rathbone, who was also her husband's business manager, developed a reputation for hosting elaborate and expensive parties in their home, with many prominent and influential people on the guest lists. This trend inspired a joke in ''[[The Ghost Breakers]]'' (1940), a film in which Rathbone does not appear: during a tremendous thunderstorm in New York City [[Bob Hope]] observes that "Basil Rathbone must be throwing a party." Actress [[Mrs Patrick Campbell]] described Rathbone as "two profiles pasted together".<ref name=autogenerated1>Basil Rathbone, ''In and Out of Character'' (New York: [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]], 1962).</ref> As cited in the same autobiography, Mrs Campbell later referred to him as "a folded umbrella taking elocution lessons".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rathbone|first=Basil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nL7GCsYhiHwC|title=In and Out of Character|publisher=Limelight Editions|year=1989|isbn=9780879101190|page=92}}</ref>

Rathbone was a devout Anglican (or, in U.S. English, Episcopalian) and a member of the Episcopal Actors Guild.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://littlechurch.org/#/who-we-are/episcopal-actors-guild |title=We embrace all who seek God's inclusive love |publisher=Littlechurch.org |accessdate=2022-08-07}}</ref>