Hollywood Auction 26
All 945 lots of Profiles in History: Hollywood Auction 26 (Dec 14, 2006). 689 sold, 73% sell-through. Top lot $700,000. Prices and results of every lot.
Auction facts
- Auction house
- Profiles in History
- Date
- 2006-12-14
- Location
- Calabasas, CA
- Lots offered
- 945
Lots
- Lot 25: Trio of vintage Marion Davies photographs
- Lot 26: Marion Davies vintage still from The Cardboard Lover
- Lot 27: Vintage portrait of Marion Davies from Quality Street. Original vintage 11 in. x 14 in. double-weight matte portrait of Marion Davies in costume for the historical drama Quality Street
- Lot 28: Vintage portrait of Marion Davies from Show People. Vintage original 11 in. x 14 in. black and white double-weight glossy portrait of Marion Davies in historical costume complete with riding crop, depicting one of her varied character roles in the classic movie about movie making Show People
- Lot 29: Vintage Marion Davies portrait from The Cardboard Lover. Original vintage 11 in. x 14 in. double-weight glossy portrait of Marion Davies wearing one of her Adrian fashions for The Cardboard Lover
- Lot 30: W.C. Fields 1920 Vaudeville typed skit, heavily annotated throughout by Fields, later used in his film It’s a Gift. Original 1920 Vaudeville script by comedy great W. C. Fields entitled The Family Ford. Typed script heavily annotated by Fields for this stage piece later incorporated into his film It’s A Gift
- Lot 31: Four original W.C. Fields photographs
- Lot 32: Vintage W.C. Fields signed photograph
- Lot 33: W.C. Fields original unpublished manuscript, written entirely in his hand, for a brief comedy entitled Every Dog Has Its Day
- Lot 34: Vintage 1927 Paramount campaign book, featuring Metropolis, etc
- Lot 35: Original set sketch from Queen Kelly
- Lot 36: James Montgomery Flagg original hand-drawn and signed sketch of John Barrymore
- Lot 37: Archive of Harold Lloyd promotional pieces
- Lot 38: Two military hats along with a collection of vintage set stills from All Quiet on the Western Front
- Lot 39: Original leather-bound premiere program for Howard Hughes’ Hell’s Angels at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater
- Lot 40: Collection of three Polk Bros. photographs of Jean Harlow, from Harlow’s mother’s estate
- Lot 41: Vintage photograph of Jean Harlow as a toddler, together with a vintage sketch of Harlow in a coffin (!) from Harlow’s mother’s estate
- Lot 42: Jean Harlow’s personal lounging pajama with a letter of provenance
- Lot 43: Pair of vintage photographs of Jean Harlow on the set, one of which features Von Sternberg and the other of Harlow with her mother, from Harlow’s mother’s estate
- Lot 44: Vintage Marion Davies portrait from Bachelor Father. Original vintage 11 in. x 14 in. double-weight glossy portrait of Marion Davies from Bachelor Father
- Lot 45: Collection of 99 original vintage photographs of Greta Garbo
- Lot 46: Rare & historic Clark Gable handwritten letter to his estranged father, in which he writes about his budding acting career! A very poignant three-page handwritten letter, on personal letterhead stationery, dated sometime in Spring, 1932, to his father Will Gable, with whom Clark had a very troubled relationship his entire life
- Lot 47: Vintage menu signed by Greta Garbo and other Hollywood celebrities
- Lot 48: Pair of vintage Greta Garbo stills