A week or so ago, the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” sold at auction for thirty-two and a half million dollars. Expensive slippers. For thirty-two and a half million dollars, you could buy the Wicked Witch of the West’s hat, which sold at the same auction, plus Marilyn Monroe’s dress from the subway-grate scene in “The Seven Year Itch,” and still have twenty-five million left over. How to spend the rest? “I would go for the gingham dress on Dorothy, but that’s for the resale value,” Paul Tazewell said the other day. “I’d think about Gene Wilder’s coat and hat from ‘Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.’ The green velvet dress in ‘Gone with the Wind.’ Any of Vanessa Redgrave’s costumes from ‘Camelot.’ Those were very magical.”
Read more here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/23/with-a-clip-clip-here-sewing-up-oz-for-wicked
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