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The WOMAN in GREEN
Universal Pictures
July 27, 1945
Producer - Roy William Neill
Director - Roy William Neill
CAST
Sherlock Holmes
 -Basil Rathbone
Dr. Watson
 -Nigel Bruce
Lydia Marlowe
 -Hillary Brooke
Professor Moriarty
 -Henry Daniell
Sir George Fenwick
 -Paul Cavanagh
Inspector Gregson
 -Matthew Boulton
Maude
 -Eve Amber
Onslow
 -Fredrick Worlock
Williams
 -Tom Bryon
Crandon
 Sally Shepherd
Mrs. Hudson
 -Mary Gordon
Dr. Simnell
-Percival Vivian

Considered by many fans (including Rathbone) to be the best and most sinister of Moriartys, Henry Daniell makes his appearance as the evil professor. Strangely enough Universal never really mentioned that Moriarty was to be in the film at all; he was to be billed under Hillary Brooke's character and listed only as Henry Daniell on posters and advertisements.

The Woman in Green, Lydia Marlow, played by the advertised foil Hillary Brooke, does a splendid job and would have done well in the film all on her own.

Hillary was no stranger to the Basil and Nigel series, she also appeared as Jill Grandis in Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942), and as Sally Musgrave in Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)

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Who was Basil's FAVORITE Masterly Moriarty?? Rathbone was to say in his autobiography,
"There were other Moriartys, but none so delectably dangerous as was that of Henry Daniel."
Copyright © 2000 Jeffery W. Stark