Another distinguished set piece from the legendary movie bought for a excessive value, amongst a number of different objects.
For avid collectors, there is not any place like a prestigious public sale home. According to The Hollywood Reporter, yet one more coveted set prop from the legendary movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) bought earlier this month at Heritage Auctions for a exceptional $495,000. The piece in query was the well-known giant hourglass wielded by the Wicked Witch of the West.
Per the merchandise description on the public sale home’s official web site, the prop, product of wooden and papier-mâché, is the “most well-known and recognizable timepiece in movie historical past”. In one among her many scenes with Dorothy, Margaret Hamilton because the Wicked Witch of the West threatens the younger lady by brandishing the hourglass full of menacing crimson sand. In one among her many well-known quotes from the movie, she declares that Dorothy’s life will finish as soon as all of the sand empties to the underside of the hourglass.
“You see that? That’s how much longer you’ve got to be alive! And it isn’t long, my pretty! it isn’t long! I can’t wait forever to get those shoes!”
Besides the Witch’s hourglass, quite a few different set items from the movie have bought through the years. The most well-known remains to be undoubtedly Dorothy’s pair of ruby crimson slippers, of which a handful of pairs exist. One pair was purchased for $2 million at public sale again in 2012 with the assistance of Leonardo DiCaprio, whereas one other pair is on show on the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.
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Other objects auctioned included the eccentric brown vest worn by younger Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), a striped jacket from Mary Poppins (1964), and a 1991 Harley Davidson bike ridden by Arnold Schwarzenegger on the set of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).