Hollywood Auction 28
All 1,046 lots of Profiles in History: Hollywood Auction 28 (Aug 3, 2007). 875 sold, 84% sell-through. Top lot $120,000. Prices and results of every lot.
Auction facts
- Auction house
- Profiles in History
- Date
- 2007-08-03
- Location
- Calabasas, CA
- Lots offered
- 1,046
Lots
- Lot 659: Pair of oversize Edith Head costume designs for background characters in Sweet Charity
- Lot 660: Edith Head costume design sketch for Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King
- Lot 661: Kees Bastiaans original oil on canvas – Clowns
- Lot 662: Collection of vintage hand-tinted glass slide theater advertisements
- Lot 663: Primo Carnera vintage signed photo
- Lot 664: Harry Houdini’s personal Mattatuck handcuffs
- Lot 666: Vintage tract/lot map of “Hollywoodland”
- Lot 667: Vintage 1927 Pathé Club yearbook
- Lot 668: Set of 48 cigarette cards from the 1930s (leading men & women)
- Lot 669: Huge archive of vintage photographs of William Randolph Hearst’s San Simeon estate, c. 1931, along with a fantastic Hurrell portrait of Marion Davies on the grounds
- Lot 670: “Motion Picture Actress” Greta Garbo applies for a passport in 1928! Fantastic Printed Document Signed, being an application for a passport in Swedish and English, accomplished in typescript and holograph, Los Angeles, October 12, 1928
- Lot 671: Dashiell Hammett signed contract to write After the Thin Man starring Myrna Loy and William Powell
- Lot 672: Erich von Stroheim signed contract with Universal Film Manufacturing Company
- Lot 673: Vintage John Dillinger autograph, obtained at the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana on February 24, 1934
- Lot 674: Vintage Shirley Temple folio scrapbook with autograph
- Lot 675: Columbia Pictures campaign book 1934-35
- Lot 676: Collection of Warner Bros. prop weapons
- Lot 678: Huge archive of original RKO set design concept artwork from the 1930s and 40s. This amazing archive of original set design concept artwork from RKO Studios dates from 1933-1948, and contains approx. 850 original pencil drawings on artist’s tissue paper
- Lot 679: Charles Laughton’s “Hunchback” bell tower cauldron with cradle from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Lot 680: Charles Laughton inspector jacket from Les Miserables
- Lot 681: Collection of 193 vintage wardrobe, set and scene test photographic negatives from The Return of Frank James
- Lot 682: Three hero coats from Flying G-Men
- Lot 683: 1936 Tenth Annual Pacific Southwest Sectional Tennis Championship program signed by Rosalind Russell, Frederic March, Walter Pidgeon, Nelson Eddy, Frank Capra, Ralph Bellamy, Harold Lloyd and others
- Lot 684: Early George Cukor call sheets for Gone With the Wind