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	William Gillette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The town where William Gillette was born, Nook Farm (near Hartford, Connecticut), was a literary and intellectual node, abiding Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
		Gillette also made use of a magnifying-glass, a violin and a syringe, which were all established as "props" to the Sherlock Holmes character.
		Gillette died on April 29, 1937, in Hartford, due to a pulmonary hemorrhage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Gillette (3295 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: William Gillette
		The town were William Gillette was born, Nook Farm (Hartford, Connecticut), was a literary and intellectual node, abiding Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
		William Hooker Gillette was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on July 24, 1853.
		Gillette displayed histrionic talents early in his life and was later urged to adopt the stage as a career by Mark Twain, a neighbor of his family in Hartford.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-Gillette (516 words)

	Gillette Castle
		It was William Gillette, one of the most popular American actors of the early twentieth century, who pioneered the role of Sherlock Holmes on the stage.
		William Gillette never actually referred to his home as a castle, even though he modeled it after the medieval ruins of a German fortress on the Rhine.
		Gillette left no heirs when died in 1937 at the age of 83, but he did make clear in his will that he'd rather see his home sold at a loss than end up in the hands of "some blithering saphead" who had no appreciation for the place.
	savvytraveler.publicradio.org /show/features/1998/19980718/gillette-castle.shtml (1117 words)

	William Gillette - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		His father was the wealthy Francis Gillette, former USA-Senator with conservative and reformist ideas --fighting for abolition, modals and public education--, who constructed most of town's infrastructure.
		Gillette's posing pictures by the artist Frederic Dorr Steele were featured in Collier's Weekly 's covers then and reproduced by all American media.
		Gillette's Sherlock Holmes was the first radio-drama transmitted in stereo in UK --November 15, 1958--.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/William_Gillette (3024 words)

	gillettecastle
		Gillette's sense of humor also can be seen in the bar room, where a closed bar was equipped with a trick locking mechanism.
		Gillette was born in Hartford in 1853 to U.S. Sen Francis Gillette and his wife, Elizabeth Daggett Hooker, a descendent of Thomas Hooker, one of the founders of the Capitol City.
		Gillette was also a train buff and constructed a three-mile miniature railway on his property, powered by two locomotives - one steam, one battery-that he had specially built in Hartford.
	www.acornbedandbreakfast.com /gillettecastle.html (1194 words)

	William Gillette
		As an actor, Gillette was a "personality" actor, always playing himself onstage, earning him the sobriquet "the aristocrat of the stage." He played starring parts in most of his own plays, and was the original stage Sherlock Holmes.
		In 1875 Gillette made his professional debut at the Globe Theater, Boston and then worked for the next six years as a stock actor in Boston, NYC, and the Midwest, studying along the way at Harvard, Yale, MIT, NYC College and Boston University.
		Gillette made considerable changes to Moser's play in order to amplify his own part and exploit the then current vogue of spiritualism by making Rev. Mr.
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /gillette.htm (470 words)

	William Gillette
		It was Gillette who made the deerstalker cap a fixture by wearing it in his play.
		So it was that William Gillette became THE image for millions of Holmes fans all over the world.
		Gillette wrote another Holmes play, a strange one-act parody in which Holmes never spoke, titled The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes.
	www.holmesonscreen.com /Gillette.htm (318 words)

	§19. William Gillette. XVIII. The Drama, 1860–1918. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The ...
		The work in play-writing of William Gillette has been so closely identified with his peculiar technique as an actor that it is difficult to separate the two.
		Gillette himself did not rightly estimate them when he wrote the sentimental comedy Clarice (16 October, 1906), nor did he, either as a technician or as a psychologist, create aright in such a piece as Electricity (31 October, 1910).
		As a dramatist he has remained undisturbed by the interest in modern ideas; his social conscience has not ruffled the even amusement tenor of his plays, which always arouse the observer to moods romantically tense, and depend on thoroughly legitimate situations rather than on ideas.
	www.bartleby.com /227/1119.html (239 words)

	William P. Gillette - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		William P. Gillette, one of the progressive business men of Osborne; Kan., is a native son of Osborne county, where he was born August 4, 1876.
		William P. Gillette, the subject of this review, is the only son in a family of three children.
		Gillette was united in marriage to Miss Maggie, daughter of Joseph N. and Luella (Miller) Eckler, of Osborne, where the father is engaged in the mercantile business.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1912/g3/gillette_william_p.html (630 words)

	Library: Watkinson Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		He was the youngest of the six children of Francis Gillette, reformer and United States Senator, and his wife Elisabeth Daggett Hooker.
		William Gillette is best known for his role on the stage.
		One of Gillette’s most popular acting roles was that of the great detective Sherlock Holmes which he first played from 1899 until 1936.
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/library/watkinson/gillette.htm (463 words)

	CT DEP: Gillette Castle State Park
		Gillette's will, Gillette Castle and the adjoining property with its fine woodlands, trails, and vistas are now administered for the enjoyment of present and future generations.
		Gillette was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1853, the son of former U.S. Senator Francis Gillette and his wife Elizabeth Daggett Hooker Gillette, a descendent of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford.
		As a child, Gillette was captivated with the stage and acting pursuits, an interest that his parents did not encourage.
	dep.state.ct.us /stateparks/parks/gillettecastle.htm (934 words)

	William Gillette Play
		William Gillette was a popular American actor born on July 24,.1853 in Hartford, Connecticut.
		Gillette continued to perform this play for almost the rest of his life.
		The Gillette Castle is closed for repairs throughout 2000.
	www.holmesonscreen.com /GillettePlay.htm (535 words)

	Orals Reading Notes: Retreat from Reconstruction, William Gillette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		William McFeely's contention, made in his 1981 Pulitzer-Prize winning Grant: A Biography, that President Grant should be held culpable for the failure of Reconstruction is shared to some extent by another historian of the revisionist school, William Gillette.
		Instead, Gillette argues that Grant was more often than not urged on by such base motives as "Cronyism" and such "temperamental predilections" as mood swings and passivity - compassion for fl citizens had little, if anything, to do with it (80, 168.
		Gillette spends a good deal of time exploring in depth the failure of Reconstruction in several states, and in each case he argues that Grant constantly zigs when he really should have zagged.
	www.kevincmurphy.com /gillette.html (421 words)

	AllRefer.com - William Gillette (Theater, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		William Gillette[julet´] Pronunciation Key, 1853–1937, American actor and dramatist, b.
		With Sherlock Holmes (1899), however, Gillette scored his lasting triumph, creating a play and a character with which he was permanently associated.
		He was one of the first to profess that an actor should build his characterization on the dominant qualities of his own personality.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Gillette.html (221 words)

	Shakespeare and the Players \| The Players \| William Gillette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		William Gillette made his first appearance as an actor in 1875 when he was still a student at Yale.
		Gillette was as well known as a playwright as he was as an actor.
		His plays, and especially those based on the character of Holmes, made Gillette a rich man. In Hadlyme, Connecticut, on a hill sits a rather grand stone building called "Gillette Castle"; the playwright could thank Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle for that house.
	shakespeare.emory.edu /actordisplay.cfm?actorid=164 (162 words)

	Gillette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Global Gillette (formerly The Gillette Company), safety razor manufacturer founded by King C. Gillette.
		Gillette, a nonstandard unit of measurement for intensity of a laser as a function of the number of razor blades it can burn through
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gillette (128 words)

	William gillette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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	William Gillette: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		William Hooker Gillette (July 24, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Gillette starred in Sherlock Holmes (1916) as Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes quick summary:
		Sherlock holmes is a fictional detective fictiondetective of the late 19th and early 20th century, created by british author and physician arthur...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_gillette.htm (569 words)

	William Gillette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		William Gillette (1855-1937), an American actor, was the definitive Sherlock Holmes on the stage (as Basil Rathbone was to become in the cinema later).
		In any case, this is Gillette's only mystery novel (I think), although he published plays and short stories.
		Doyle would have been offended by this (who knows, maybe he and the author were no longer on speaking terms); Gillette trashes the whole business but shows even the cops falling for the latest revelations from the spirit world, such as where to find the murder weapon (apparently arranged by our con-man villain).
	www.mysterylist.com /gillette.htm (1054 words)

	The Middletown Press - Festivities celebrate Gillette
		"It was William Gillette who gave life to Sherlock Holmes -- the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," said Harold Niver, who dressed in a deerstalker cap and Inverness cape, and held a curved pipe and large magnifying glass.
		The society is unique in its ability to combine Sherlock Holmes with William Gillette, she said.
		Gillette built a stone mansion between 1914 and 1919 overlooking the Connecticut River in the town’s Hadlyme section.
	www.middletownpress.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14914204&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=10856&rfi=6 (655 words)

	Gillette Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Gillette castle is located on a bluff overlooking the Connecticut River.
		The three-story structure was the home of director, actor, and playwright, William Gillette, who completed the castle in 1919.
		The rooms open to the public include nine bedrooms, seven baths, a kitchen and pantry, a third-floor suite, a library, and a study.
	www.dupontcastle.com /castles/gillette.htm (129 words)

	Sherlock Holmes Shoppe: Tryon North Carolina, William Gillette Festival
		Most readers will be aware that William Gillette was the first actor to portray Sherlock Holmes on the American stage.
		Well, yes, and that's where Gillette Castle still is. However, his first love as a "place to call home" was in the marvelous little town of Tryon, NC.
		Gillette's residence there, the town of Tryon, lead by Jerry Soderquist, decided to inaugurate a festival to honor both Sherlock Holmes and the man who impersonated him on the American stage, William Gillette.
	www.sherlock-holmes.com /tryon.htm (1500 words)

	CPTV/Mark Twain's Neighborhood: Nook Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Photo of William Gillette in the attic of the Gillette family home courtesy of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
		Gillette wrote much of the copy, but he persuaded his father, Senator Francis Gillette; Charles Dudley Warner; and others to contribute to the paper.
		By age 16, William Gillette had built a stationary steam engine on the third floor of the Gillette's Nook Farm home.
	www.cptv.org /nookfarm/pages/w-gillette.html (202 words)

	Sherlock Holmes Shoppe: Feature Article Page
		The series on Gillette is now appearing in seven parts in the Ephemeris, and from that series sprang the idea for an accurate and up-to-date biography of the great actor, which is soon to be published by the Tryon Publishing Company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
		While Doyle's Sherlockian cases were popular long before Gillette ever thought about dramatizing them, it was Gillette who single-handedly turned the master sleuth of the printed page into a legitimate, flesh-and-blood, action hero, thereby giving living substance to a literary character.
		Gillette established, for all time, the formula for the detective mystery for stage and screen; and he infused into the Holmes image the two items most commonly associated today with the master sleuth, i.e., the deerstalker cap and the calabash pipe!
	www.sherlock-holmes.com /featur8.htm (1645 words)

	National figures from Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina who have achieved prominance in art, literture, ...
		Gillette went on to play Holmes more than 1300 times with great financial success.
		It was Gillette who adopted the famed curved pipe for the character.
		Hopkins' paintings and drawing are widely known throughout the southeast and have won awards in a number of national and regional exhibitions.
	www.sparklenet.com /1_Visitors_Center/Local_Notables/Humanities.htm (1904 words)

	05 Master Document, Prefaces & Table of Contents [Combined]
		William Gillette, a tall, sparse figure of a man smoking a curved meerschaum pipe and wearing a deerstalker and cape, is inextricably connected with the role of the famous detective.
		Adapted by Arthur Conan Doyle [sic] and William Gillette from the story by Arthur Conan Doyle entitled "The Strange Case of Miss Faulkner." Revised 1922 by Arthur Conan Doyle [sic] and William Gillette.
		Gillette last appeared in a radio broadcast of it in 1935 at the age of 82.
	special.lib.umn.edu /rare/ush/10E1.html (10995 words)

	Essex Steam Train - Your Hand on the Throttle
		The Ferry transports hikers to the base of Gillette Castle State Park, in Hadlyme, for a hike up a hill of moderately graded trails to one of Connecticut's most famous destinations.
		Gillette Castle, interior tour fees: $5 for adults; $3 age 6-17, Free under 6.
		The Gillette Castle Connection is limited to 20 persons per trip -- so be sure to arrive early, and call ahead if you have a large group.
	www.essexsteamtrain.com /gillette.html (467 words)

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