Icons & Legends of Hollywood Auction 103
All 2,053 lots of Profiles in History: Icons & Legends of Hollywood Auction 103 (Jun 8, 2018). 1,222 sold, 60% sell-through. Top lot $400,000.
Auction facts
- Auction house
- Profiles in History
- Date
- 2018-06-08
- Location
- Calabasas, CA
- Lots offered
- 2,053
Lots
- Lot 193: Dorothy Lamour dress from The Road to Hong Kong
- Lot 194: Bette Davis “Henriette” gown from All This, and Heaven Too
- Lot 195: Henry Fonda “Frank James” tailcoat from The Return of Frank James
- Lot 196: Promotional railroad spike from Cecil B. DeMille’s Union Pacific
- Lot 197: MGM Studios prop boxcar
- Lot 198: Laurence Olivier “Mr. Darcy” tailcoat from Pride and Prejudice
- Lot 199: “Hynkel” regime armband from The Great Dictator
- Lot 200: Charlie Chaplin “Hynkel” military dress uniform jacket from The Great Dictator
- Lot 201: Errol Flynn and Lili Damita original marriage certificate
- Lot 202: Errol Flynn personal leather Oxford dress shoes
- Lot 203: Errol Flynn personal “Bottoms Up” shot glass
- Lot 204: Errol Flynn personal address book
- Lot 205: John Barrymore letter to his wife Dolores Costello asking for a divorce
- Lot 206: John Barrymore’s letter to his brother Lionel about his impending divorce
- Lot 207: Greta Garbo signed letter to Sydney Guilaroff “…I can speak to no one.” (1964) Vintage original typed 1-page letter signed, “G.G.”, on folded stationery leaf measuring 5.5 x 8.5 in. Garbo writes to her friend and former-MGM hairstylist, evincing the reclusiveness for which she was famous: “Thank you for thinking of me—and, I am sorry, but for the moment I can speak to no one”
- Lot 208: Greta Garbo autograph letter to Gilbert Roland “…I too have (in a way) a ‘Soldier’ now”
- Lot 209: Greta Garbo’s autograph letter to Gilbert Roland “…secrets about my M-friend”
- Lot 210: The Marx Brothers signed contract agreement
- Lot 211: Mickey Rooney “Tommy Williams” costume from Babes on Broadway
- Lot 212: Marlene Dietrich “Fay Duval” skirt suit from Manpower
- Lot 213: Gary Cooper “Cole Harden” cowboy hat from The Westerner
- Lot 214: Marlene Dietrich “Countess Ledoux” bedroom ensemble from The Flame of New Orleans
- Lot 215: Orson Welles “Charles Foster Kane” jacket from Citizen Kane
- Lot 216: Ethel Waters “Cleona Jones” gown from Cairo