生于加利福尼亚州巴斯托。早年曾获得过“长滩美女赛”的冠军，曾当过一段时间的模特儿。后来被好莱坞二十世纪福斯影片公司聘为演员，在影片《一伙人全在这儿》初登银幕。此后在《家在印第安纳》中出演女主角，并有出色演出，但真正使她跃上明星地位的是1945年的彩色音乐片《嘉会良缘...
Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892, but three years later his family was forced to flee the country because his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy at a time when Dutch-British conflicts were leading to the Boer War. The Rathbones escaped to England, where Basil and his two younger siblings, Beatrice and John, were raised. Their mother, Anna Barbara (George), was a violinist, who was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, of British parents, and their father, Edgar Philip Rathbone, was a mining engineer born in Liverpool.
意大利演员，出演过《大逃亡》等片。
