# The Creation of Iconic Images for the Movies

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> The calabash pipe was said to be the introduction of William Gillette, who wrote and starred in the drama _Sherlock Holmes_ based on several of Doyle’s stories.

Oh yeah, forgot about the pipe. Basil Rathbone clearly had a lot to do with cementing the image of cap, cape and pipe in the popular imagination:

[http://www.basilrathbone.net/gallery/sherlockholmes/index.htm](http://www.basilrathbone.net/gallery/sherlockholmes/index.htm)

(P.S.: gotta love that circa 1994 website)

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