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Post by wmcclain on May 19, 2020 18:08:50 GMT
 Christian Slater, age 12, in Sherlock Holmes (1981), "The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner". His second IMDB credit. A theater production filmed before a live audience in 1981 for HBO's "Standing Room Only" series. Frank Langella first performed the role in 1977. We also have Susan Clark, Stephen Collins, Tom Atkins and Dwight Schultz. Details at the imdb. Some fascinating facts about this play from the wikipedia with which to astound your friends: - William Gillette, an American actor, after getting AC Doyle's permission to write a Holmes play, mined several of the stories for his plot. We have Moriarity and someone much like Irene Adler under another name. First run: 1899, many revivals thereafter.
- In the original stories the boy who answers the door and runs errands at 221B Baker Street did not have a name, so Gillette christened him "Billy" in the play and Doyle adopted the name in later stories.
- Gillette invented "Elementary, my dear Watson" and introduced the signature curved pipe.
- The play premiered in Buffalo and moved to Broadway before heading to England.
- Young Charlie Chaplin played "Billy" in one run.
- In 1916 Gillette did a silent film version, long thought lost, now found.
- Orson Welles was Holmes in a Mercury Theater radio production with a score conducted by Bernard Herrmann.
- Leonard Nimoy did the Holmes part in another production.
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Post by mattgarth on May 19, 2020 20:02:13 GMT
Thanks for the interesting post, Wm.
In 1935 (two years before his passing), William Gillette brought his famous stage play -- SHERLOCK HOLMES -- to the airwaves.
It was one of the early episodes of the recently launched 'Lux Radio Theater.'
Unfortunately, no copy of the broadcast exists.
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Post by claudius on May 19, 2020 21:22:29 GMT
I believe Gillette also patterned Doyle’s cloth cap that Holmes wore into the Deerstalker cap.
Although The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) is stated as being based on the play, the only similarities were names.
I always wanted to see the HBO version. I blew one chance. Why don’t they release it on DVD like the HBO Camelot?
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Post by wmcclain on May 19, 2020 21:38:24 GMT
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Post by jervistetch on May 20, 2020 1:02:42 GMT
So it wasn’t Doyle himself who first coined, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” ?!
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Post by wmcclain on May 20, 2020 1:18:40 GMT
So it wasn’t Doyle himself who first coined, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” ?! No, it doesn't occur in the stories.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 20, 2020 1:41:05 GMT
Wow I thought it did. I read a bunch of them and assumed I had seen it.
Is that the Mandela Effect?
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Post by Nalkarj on May 20, 2020 4:11:22 GMT
So it wasn’t Doyle himself who first coined, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” ?! “Elementary” and “my dear Watson” pop up many times in Doyle’s stories, but not the two phrases put together. Doyle’s Holmes does come close to saying the line, though: In “The Resident Patient,” he says, “It was very superficial, my dear Watson, I assure you.”
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Post by jervistetch on May 20, 2020 5:26:30 GMT
So it wasn’t Doyle himself who first coined, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” ?! No, it doesn't occur in the stories. Stunned! It’s probably the single quote most people associate with the series. I read all of the books and stories 30-40 years ago but never realized Doyle never wrote it.
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Post by teleadm on May 20, 2020 7:41:36 GMT
The 1922 movie Sherlock Holmes starring John Barrymore as Holmes and Roland Young as Dr Watson, is also based on the Gilette play. With Jerry Devine as Billy, since he was born in 1908 it doesn't seem impossible that he played the page boy.
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