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 709: Set concept artwork for Devil at 4 O’Clock
- Lot 710: Original production artwork of Paul Newman in The Prize for the one-sheet poster
- Lot 711: Director Stanley Kramer’s personal working / shooting script for It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Lot 712: Pair of Katharine Hepburn handwritten letters regarding Spencer Tracy
- Lot 713: Fred Astaire handwritten letter signed. One page letter on “Paramount Pictures Corporation” letterhead stationery, dated “Monday” [October, 1960], written to director Stanley Kramer’s wife, Anne Kramer. Content regarding Australia refers to the filming of On the Beach
- Lot 714: John Box production design artwork for Lawrence of Arabia
- Lot 715: Rex Harrison Caesar throne from Cleopatra
- Lot 716: Roman chair made for Cleopatra
- Lot 717: Roman helmet from Cleopatra & Fall of the Roman Empire
- Lot 718: Robert Taylor hero Roman short sword and scabbard from Quo Vadis
- Lot 719: Set of musical scores and script for The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- Lot 720: Hero Excalibur broadsword from Camelot
- Lot 721: Large-scale miniature locomotive and coal tender
- Lot 722: Rocket gun made by John Stears for You Only Live Twice
- Lot 723: Pair of vintage publicity photos of Dean Martin in The Wrecking Crew
- Lot 724: Walther PPK hero decommissioned pistol used by Roger Moore as “James Bond” during the late 1970s and early 1980s
- Lot 725: Walther PPK fiberglass prop pistol used by Roger Moore as “James Bond” during the late 1970s and early 1980s
- Lot 726: Patty Duke’s personal address & phone book from the 1960s. Small green address book, measuring approx. 2 ½ in. x 4 in., containing the addresses and/or phone numbers of a host of important celebrities from the 1960s, including Jim Morrison, Arthur Miller, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Paul Newman, Debbie Reynolds, Jimmy Stewart and Frank Sinatra
- Lot 728: Sam Peckinpah’s leather script pouch from the Steve McQueen films The Getaway and Junior Bonner. Legendary writer/director of Western films Sam Peckinpah kept this leather script pouch at the side of his director’s chair during the filming of both The Getaway
- Lot 729: Vintage promotional poster for a Frank Sinatra club performance from the late 1930s. This hand-painted poster dates from the late 1930s, and announces a performance of “Frankie” and the “Big Bands” – Miller, Dorsey, James, Goodwin, Martin, Shaw and Barnet – at the Pine Point Casino in Newburgh, New York
- Lot 730: Director Robert Aldrich clapper board from Twilight’s Last Gleaming
- Lot 731: Pair of 16 x 20 studio color photos from Grand Prix
- Lot 732: “Cab Calloway” concert poster, Scranton, PA, March 24, 1950
- Lot 733: “Cab Calloway & Harlem Globetrotters” poster, Scranton, PA, December 10, 1951