Hollywood Auction 24
All 565 lots of Profiles in History: Hollywood Auction 24 (Mar 31, 2006). 477 sold, 85% sell-through. Top lot $80,000. Prices and results of every lot.
Auction facts
- Auction house
- Profiles in History
- Date
- 2006-03-31
- Location
- Calabasas, CA
- Lots offered
- 565
Lots
- Lot 1: Archive of five vintage stills from Cleopatra (1917) featuring Theda Bara
- Lot 2: Collection of nine original German stills from Pandora’s Box starring Louise Brooks and Francis Lederer
- Lot 3: Original Emmett Kelly “Weary Willie” clown costume
- Lot 4: Louise Brooks personal bed-jacket, worn in the documentary of her life Lulu in Berlin
- Lot 5: Vintage W.C. Fields hand-drawn self-caricature
- Lot 6: Orson Welles vintage signed photo
- Lot 7: Orson Welles vintage signed sketch on a personal handwritten letter
- Lot 8: Zeus statue set piece from the Kane Mansion in Citizen Kane
- Lot 9: Retractable stunt sword from Joan of Arc, attributed to Ingrid Bergman
- Lot 10: Katharine Hepburn vintage signed photograph from Mary of Scotland inscribed to Walter Plunkett. A fantastic, 10 in. x 12 in. b/w image (matted to 11 in. x 16 in.) of Hepburn in costume as “Mary, Queen of Scots” from Mary of Scotland
- Lot 11: Original shooting script from The Hunchback of Notre Dame along with an extensive production archive from the film
- Lot 12: Vintage prop blunderbuss from Captain Blood
- Lot 13: Shirley Temple vintage child’s dress from an unidentified 20th Century-Fox film
- Lot 14: Vintage Arabian-style slippers from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- Lot 15: Archive of original promotional material and unpublished photographs from the 1933 French premiere of King Kong
- Lot 16: Original vintage RKO miniature utility box used at the time of King Kong
- Lot 17: Archive of Wizard of Oz publicity stills
- Lot 18: The munchkins of The Wizard of Oz limited edition signed photograph
- Lot 19: Emerald City townsman's jacket from The Wizard of Oz
- Lot 20: Set of 1970 MGM/David Weisz auction catalogs
- Lot 21: Groucho Marx silver presentation tray given to Barbara Bruner, his personal nurse
- Lot 22: Disney “Club 55” 10k gold ring
- Lot 23: Bing Crosby personal briarwood pipe
- Lot 24: Bud Abbott oil on canvas portrait, commissioned by Abbott and displayed in his Encino, CA home until his death in 1974