Hollywood: A Collector's Ransom Auction 109
All 1,606 lots of Profiles in History: Hollywood: A Collector's Ransom Auction 109 (Dec 19, 2019). 617 sold. Top lot $320,000. Prices and results of every lot.
Auction facts
- Auction house
- Profiles in History
- Date
- 2019-12-19
- Location
- Calabasas, CA
- Lots offered
- 1,606
Lots
- Lot 25: Buster Keaton (5) photographs from College including (1) in blackface
- Lot 26: Gloria Swanson (7) photographs from Sadie Thompson
- Lot 27: Emil Jannings (31) early Paramount photographs for his introduction to U.S. audiences
- Lot 28: Behind the scenes, portraits, and scene continuity (75+) photographs from the archive of MGM wardrobe matron Vicki Nichols
- Lot 29: The Hollywood Dream Factory (60+) photographs featuring Frank Capra, Preston Sturges, Fred Astaire, Peter Lorre and more
- Lot 30: The Wing Sisters (2) oversize photographs by George Cannons
- Lot 31: Joan Crawford (14) photographs
- Lot 32: African-Americans on screen (18) photographs
- Lot 33: Sex in the Cinema (20) photographs
- Lot 34: Blackface (4) historic photographs
- Lot 35: Collection of (75+) fan-photos and (2) celebrity scrapbooks
- Lot 36: Harold Lloyd (2) death-defying stunt photographs from Feet First
- Lot 37: Hell’s Angels (13) photographs with Jean Harlow and costars
- Lot 38: Joan Blondell (5) exceptional Pre-Code photographs
- Lot 39: Marlene Dietrich (9) exceptional portrait photographs
- Lot 40: Warren William (30+) photographs
- Lot 41: Pre-Code Glamour (26) photographs
- Lot 42: Clark Gable (8) exceptional early male glamour photographs
- Lot 43: Barbara Stanwyck (10) portrait and scene photographs
- Lot 44: Bette Davis (12) portrait and scene photographs
- Lot 45: Katharine Hepburn (8) portrait and scene photographs
- Lot 46: The Marx Brothers (5) classic portrait and scene photographs
- Lot 47: Jean Harlow (8) portrait and scene photographs, some with Clark Gable
- Lot 48: Jean Harlow (90+) restrike photographs