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Judy Garland’s Ruby Slippers Sell at Auction for $32.5 Million
The slippers Judy Garland wore as Dorothy in 1939’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’ sold at auction for a record $32.5 million
One of four surviving pairs worn by Garland in the classic film, the slippers sold for vastly more than the $10 million that the auction house’s executive vice president, Joe Maddalena, initially anticipated. The record-breaking ruby slippers were famously stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, in the summer of 2005 and recovered 13 years later by the FBI. Other items that were included in the auction: producer Mervyn LeRoy ’s copy of the script from the MGM art department, which sold for $50,000; the screen door from Dorothy’s Kansas home, which sold for $37,500; Garland’s “Dorothy Gale” wig from the first week of shooting, which earned $30,000; and the MGM contract signed by “Over the Rainbow” songwriters Harold Arlen and E.Y.
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