Dressed to Kill premiered

June 7, 1946
The final installment in the Sherlock Holmes series, Dressed to Kill, directed by Roy William Neill and starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce and Patricia Morrison, opened on this date.

Irene Adler, mentioned by Dr. Watson, was a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A former opera singer and actress, she was featured in the short story A Scandal in Bohemia to which Watson referred. But she was never incorporated into any of the plots of the films in the series.



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