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The "flying" dress of Marilyn Monroe was sold for $ 4.6 million
The famous dress of the Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe from the comedy Billy Wyder Seven Year itch ("Seven years of desire") was sold on Saturday at the auction of the Profile in History auction house in Los Angeles for $ 4.6 million, RIA Novosti reports.
The pre-sale assessment of this top of the trading was 1-2 million dollars.
The episode, when, due to the air flow from the grate of the ventilation system of the New York metro, the skirt of the white plissed costume of the main character takes off up, made Marilyn with a sex symbol of his era.
Initially, the scene was shot on Manhattan on the corner of the 52nd street and Lexington Avenue, collecting thousands of onlookers. Despite many takes, due to the noise of the crowd, the scene was rejected. Wilder was forced to re -reset her in the 20th Century Fox studio pavilion, and he had to make another 40 doubles in order to achieve the planned effect with his skirt.
The "flying" dress of Merilin will take a place in the ten most expensive dresses in the world, although unlike other outfits, it is not decorated with any precious stones.
About 500 costumes, in which the legendary stars of Hollywood Charlie Chaln, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, were exhibited on Saturday for a unique auction in Beverly Hills. This is the largest costume collection in Hollywood, which has ever appeared at the auction, the organizers said.
In fact, this is a whole museum of clothing, which was intended to open the owner of the collection - 79 -year -old actress Debbi Reynolds. She collected clothes for half a century, but financial circumstances forced her not only to abandon the museum’s project, but also to sell all the outfits to pay off debts.
In her appeal to potential customers, Reynolds expressed the hope that the outfits who personify the history of Hollywood will take a place in the collections of the same fans of cult actors and films, which she considered herself all her life.