Hollywood Auction 31
All 1,105 lots of Profiles in History: Hollywood Auction 31 (Mar 28, 2008). 911 sold, 82% sell-through. Top lot $300,000. Prices and results of every lot.
Auction facts
- Auction house
- Profiles in History
- Date
- 2008-03-28
- Location
- Calabasas, CA
- Lots offered
- 1,105
Lots
- Lot 775: Rene Hubert costume sketch for Linda Darnell in Forever Amber
- Lot 776: Rene Hubert costume sketch for Maureen O’Hara in The Foxes of Harrow
- Lot 777: Jack Muhs costume sketch for Robert Wagner in Prince Valiant
- Lot 778: Jack Muhs costume sketch for James Mason in Prince Valiant
- Lot 779: Charles Le Maire costume sketch of Joan Collins for The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
- Lot 780: Lucille Ball handwritten note to Edith Head, asking her to be designer on a TV special co-starring Bob Hope
- Lot 781: Lucille Ball costume design sketch, possibly for I Love Lucy (lavender dress)
- Lot 782: Vivian Vance costume design sketch, possibly for I Love Lucy (pink dress)
- Lot 783: Charles Le Maire costume sketch of Gregory Peck as “King David” for David and Bathsheba
- Lot 784: Marjorie Best original costume design sketch for Elizabeth Taylor in Giant
- Lot 785: Jack Muhs costume sketch for Tyrone Power in The Sun Also Rises
- Lot 786: Edith Head costume sketch for Beverly Garland in The Joker is Wild
- Lot 787: Ruth Morley costume sketch of George C. Scott for The Hustler
- Lot 788: Norma Koch costume sketch for Frank Sinatra in 4 for Texas
- Lot 789: Jack Muhs costume sketch for Dean Martin in The Sons of Katie Elder
- Lot 790: Pair of original Moss Mabry costume design sketches of a guard and a slaygirl of the “Big O” corporation from The Silencers
- Lot 791: Moss Mabry original costume design sketch of the Slaygirl “Miss September” for the Matt Helm film Murderers’ Row
- Lot 792: Harry Houdini bust with a pair of original Houdini handcuffs
- Lot 793: Charioteer schenti from Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 classic, The Ten Commandments
- Lot 794: Original vintage wall-mounted lamp from the famous Brown Derby restaurant, c. 1930
- Lot 795: The first-ever Thalberg Memorial Award, presented to Darryl F. Zanuck in 1938 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
- Lot 796: Irving Thalberg’s personal leather satchel with “MGM I. Thalberg” embossed in the leather
- Lot 797: 14K gold ‘Hollywood Palladium’ money clip presented to Freddie Martin with presentation engraving on back
- Lot 798: Carole Lombard pre-Code black dressing gown from Safety in Numbers