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Elizabeth Taylor’s 1961 Oscars gown found for auction
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Just call it a holiday miracle.
The Christian Dior dress Elizabeth Taylor wore to the 1961 Oscars has been missing since the fateful night she won the Best Actress award for her role in BUtterfield 8.
She wore a dress designed by Marc Bohan, opera gloves and diamond and pearl earrings, and chose her then-husband Eddie Fischer for her date.
According Kerry Taylor Auctionsthe significant gown was that summer – more than 60 years later – in a suitcase in London, where Taylor and Richard Burton owned a home and visited frequently.
Close family friend and employee of Anne Sanz he told the auction house that the dress—with a pale yellow chiffon bodice and a voluminous white skirt embroidered in ice blue—had only been worn once, but Taylor considered it a “luck charm” and carried it with her when she traveled.
However, Sanz says that in the 1970s, Taylor was tired of lugging dozens of luggage around the world and thus gave Anne tons of her merchandise – including a dress from 1961. The item and other items belonging to Burton were found in a plastic suitcase.
The dress and other valuable goods from the actress will be put up for auction December 6 and is expected to cost between $42,000 and $72,000.
Not only does this expensive piece have a memorable connection to the late actress, who died in 2011 at the age of 79, but it is also part of Oscar history thanks to her memorable speech.
When she won her first Oscar after being overlooked in previous years for her roles in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer and more, Taylor, then 29, accepted the award in shock.
“I don’t really know how to express my gratitude after all this. I guess all I can do is thank you. Thank you with all my heart, she said he said breathlessly.
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