Hollywood Auction 25
All 685 lots of Profiles in History: Hollywood Auction 25 (Jul 28, 2006). 576 sold, 84% sell-through. Top lot $120,000. Prices and results of every lot.
Auction facts
- Auction house
- Profiles in History
- Date
- 2006-07-28
- Location
- Calabasas, CA
- Lots offered
- 685
Lots
- Lot 1: Pair of Thomas Edison signed cabinet photographs, including one inscribed to Frederick Ott, the world’s first “movie star” who was famously filmed while sneezing! This important and rare collection includes two vintage cabinet photographs of Thomas A. Edison
- Lot 2: Original oversize vintage set photograph of Belshazzar’s Palace from D.W. Griffith’s epic film, Intolerance
- Lot 3: Collection of vintage Hollywood autographs on two scrolls, presented to actor Harry Davenport
- Lot 4: Erich Von Stroheim original typed studio approval script for The Merry Widow, accompanied with the original signed contract between von Stroheim and Goldwyn executive Irving Thalberg
- Lot 5: Rare Mervyn LeRoy vintage signed photograph
- Lot 6: Collection of Irving Berlin signed sheet music
- Lot 7: Harold Lloyd signature eyeglasses
- Lot 8: Vintage Amelia Earhart lamp with stylized parachute lamp-shade
- Lot 9: Collection of nine original photographs of Charles Lindbergh
- Lot 10: Marx Brothers photo from A Night in Casablanca signed by Groucho, Harpo and Chico
- Lot 11: Marx Brothers vintage signed photograph dating from A Night in Casablanca
- Lot 12: Original 11 in. x 14 in. production still of Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery from Tugboat Annie
- Lot 13: Glenn Strange signed photograph as “Frankenstein” from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Lot 14: Abbott and Costello signed “Who’s On First?” 78 rpm record
- Lot 15: Archive of original letters & Christmas cards from numerous stars & luminaries from the 1920s-1950s, including Josephine Baker, all penned to Richard Gully, Jack Warner’s confidante
- Lot 16: Vintage Greta Garbo handwritten letter signed “Sweet One”
- Lot 17: Rare Jean Harlow vintage oversize photograph signed
- Lot 18: Rare Jean Harlow autograph letter signed
- Lot 19: Humphrey Bogart typed legal document signed, severing his relationship with Warner Bros. after a 15-year association
- Lot 20: Katharine Hepburn vintage oversize signed photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull
- Lot 21: Collection of five vintage Ava Gardner portraits by Clarence Sinclair Bull
- Lot 22: Collection of six vintage Ava Gardner portraits by Clarence Sinclair Bull and Virgil Apger
- Lot 23: Collection of four vintage portraits of Ava Gardner by Virgil Apger
- Lot 24: Collection of five vintage portraits of Ann Sothern