Simply in time for Depraved, a historic piece of Wizard of Oz memorabilia goes up for public sale.
A pair of Judy Garland’s iconic ruby slippers from the 1939’s The Wizard of Oz is being auctioned off as part of Heritage Auctions’ Hollywood/Leisure Signature Public sale. As of Wednesday, November 6, the bidding worth for the well-known film footwear is ready at over $800,000.
Per the public sale’s web site, the footwear are one in every of 4 pairs which have survived within the years for the reason that making of the basic movie. Three of the pairs offered on the 1970 MGM Public sale had been donated to The Smithsonian in 1979, whereas the pair presently up for public sale had been offered to collector Michael Shaw.
Shaw displayed the footwear at seminars and through his Michael Shaw’s Hollywood on Tour present by way of the ‘80s earlier than placing them on show on the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The footwear had been finally stolen from the museum in 2005 by Terry Jon Martin.
The stolen footwear had been recovered by the FBI in 2018 after an individual tried to say an insurance coverage reward on them, per the Related Press. Martin was charged with stealing the next yr. He pleaded responsible to at least one rely of theft of main paintings in October 2023, claiming he believed the footwear featured actual rubies he may promote. Lower than two days after the theft, nevertheless, upon studying the gems had been manufactured from glass, he removed the footwear.
Martin was sentenced to serve one yr of probation along with paying $23,000 to the Judy Garland Museum.
Heritage Auctions’ web site states that the stolen slippers had been worn by Garland in a number of memorable The Wizard of Oz scenes, together with when her character, Dorothy Gale, clicks her heels collectively 3 times and chants “there’s no place like house” on the finish of the movie.
Made out of crimson silk faille, lined with white leather-based and lined in hand-sequined silk georgette, the stolen slippers seem a darker shade of crimson than the opposite three pairs of footwear on account of being stored out of direct mild, in keeping with the public sale’s web site. Garland’s title can be written on the within of each footwear.
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Whereas the ruby slippers have grow to be one of the vital notable clothes objects in film historical past, the footwear had been initially silver in The Great Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum’s 1900 e-book upon which the movie relies. The colour change was made in order that the footwear would spotlight the film’s Technicolor expertise.
The upcoming film Depraved, which premieres in theaters on November 22, pays tribute to each the e-book collection and The Wizard of Oz movie. Trailers for the film tease a model of Dorothy in a dressing up paying homage to Garland’s outfit however can be proven carrying silver slippers as a substitute of crimson.
Based mostly on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 e-book and the 2003 Broadway musical, Depraved tells the backstory of Elphaba, the Depraved Witch of the West (Cynthia Erivo), and Glinda the Good Witch (Ariana Grande). Set earlier than and in the course of the occasions of The Wizard of Oz, the story follows the ladies as they go from college rivals to unlikely associates and foes.