![]() Bonhams has the dress on display this week at the auction house's New York location before it is sent to California for public view and then auction.Ĭulture Catholic University Lecturer Makes Huge 'Wizard Of Oz' Find She and others are hopeful that nostalgia factor will come into play when the costume goes up for sale at Bonhams "Classic Hollywood: Film and Television" auction on May 24 in Los Angeles, where it has a presale estimate of $800,000 to $1.2 million. "In a way it was like I was looking at my past childhood." When she first saw it, "all I could think about was watching the movie when I was a child and growing up with" it, said Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw, dean of the school of music, drama and art at Catholic University, in Washington, D.C. But the clearing out of some office clutter last year led to the finding of the dress in an old shoebox, and now it's headed for the auction block. ![]() NEW YORK - It's one of the most recognizable outfits in American movie history, the blue-and-white checked gingham dress a young Judy Garland wore as Dorothy in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz.įor decades, one of the versions of the dress Garland wore in the movie was assumed lost at Catholic University of America, where it had been given to someone in the drama department in the early 1970s. A blue and white checked gingham dress, worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, hangs on display, Monday, April 25, 2022, at Bonhams in New York.
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