Hollywood Auction 23
All 392 lots of Profiles in History: Hollywood Auction 23 (Dec 16, 2005). 310 sold, 79% sell-through. Top lot $60,000. Prices and results of every lot.
Auction facts
- Auction house
- Profiles in History
- Date
- 2005-12-16
- Location
- Calabasas, CA
- Lots offered
- 392
Lots
- Lot 148: Roman phalanx shield from Cleopatra
- Lot 149: Marilyn Monroe’s First “Screen Test” – Original 16mm footage of Norma Jean Dougherty shot by the Bluebook Modeling Agency in September, 1945
- Lot 150: Marilyn Monroe promotional poster made by the Saturday Evening Post
- Lot 151: Set of four photographs (sequence) of Marilyn Monroe from the famous Subway Scene in The Seven Year Itch
- Lot 152: Archive of studio and production company documents concerning Marilyn Monroe’s un-produced made-for-TV film, Rain
- Lot 153: Rebel Without a Cause “shooting breakdown” production document
- Lot 154: James Dean personal motorcycle boots
- Lot 155: Rare Charlie Chaplin City Lights style-B one-sheet poster
- Lot 156: James Cagney Devil Dogs of the Air mini window card
- Lot 157: San Quentin window card
- Lot 158: Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse window card
- Lot 159: Invisible Stripes window card
- Lot 160: Roaring Twenties window card
- Lot 161: The Big Shot window card
- Lot 162: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein one-sheet poster
- Lot 163: Stanley Kubrick’s Killer’s Kiss one-sheet poster
- Lot 164: Ocean’s Eleven three-sheet poster
- Lot 165: Breakfast at Tiffany’s one-sheet poster
- Lot 166: George Gershwin vintage signed photograph
- Lot 167: Irving Berlin vintage photograph inscribed to fellow songwriter Harry Ruby, with a musical quotation from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”
- Lot 168: Celebrity autograph book collected by “God Bless America” singer Kate Smith, with a handwritten letter from Thomas Edison regarding conducting
- Lot 169: Original vintage Shure Brothers Model 55S microphone from the Louisiana Hayride used by Elvis Presley and other luminaries of early country music, and through which the famous phrase “Elvis has left the building!” was first broadcast
- Lot 170: Elvis Presley western hat from Charro!
- Lot 171: The Encyclopedia of Jazz signed by nearly 700 jazz greats and others. This 1962 edition of The Encyclopedia of Jazz