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A Judy Garland worn "Dorothy" blouse and pinafore from The Wizard of Oz
30 November 2016, 12:00 EST
New YorkUS$100,000 - US$150,000
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A Judy Garland worn "Dorothy" blouse and pinafore from The Wizard of Oz
A fitted blue pinafore with shoulder straps and trim of dark blue with white polka dots, two buttons at both the front and back of the waist, both snap and hook-and-eye closures in the back, and a full skirt, bearing an off-white bias tape inscribed, "Judy Garland 3955-1," a second bias tape inscribed, "Bobby Koshay / Double - Harness," and an MGM cleaning tag. Together with a short off-white organdy blouse with a removable Peter Pan collar, short puffed sleeves, three buttons down the front with a vertical line design, and both snap and hook-and-eye closures down the back and around the neckline, bearing a bias tape with "J. Garland" written in black ink and an MGM cleaning tag. Accompanied by 5 black and white and 2 color 8 x 10 photographs of Judy Garland wearing the costume.
The character of Dorothy would have been a heavily made up blonde bombshell had director Richard Thorpe had his way. Thorpe, a longtime respected, but not necessarily creative, director at MGM in the 1930s, was the first director assigned to The Wizard of Oz, but not the last. This costume was worn by Garland during the first few weeks of filming under Thorpe's direction and was most likely going to be used by her double/stand-in, Bobby Koshay, for the Haunted Forest Flying Monkey sequence; hence, the two labels. The Judy Garland label was originally found sewn under the Bobby Koshay label, indicating that the costume was worn by Garland first and then assigned to Koshay.
After viewing what Thorpe had shot during his first weeks on the job, producer Mervyn LeRoy fired him and assigned visionary George Cukor as the next director; Cukor stayed on for a short time before the final director, Victor Fleming, took over. It is hard to imagine how The Wizard of Oz would have turned out had Richard Thorpe stayed at the helm; his ideas were so vastly different from the finished film.
Provenance: Sotheby's New York, tag reading 524/8 (original auction tags included).
The character of Dorothy would have been a heavily made up blonde bombshell had director Richard Thorpe had his way. Thorpe, a longtime respected, but not necessarily creative, director at MGM in the 1930s, was the first director assigned to The Wizard of Oz, but not the last. This costume was worn by Garland during the first few weeks of filming under Thorpe's direction and was most likely going to be used by her double/stand-in, Bobby Koshay, for the Haunted Forest Flying Monkey sequence; hence, the two labels. The Judy Garland label was originally found sewn under the Bobby Koshay label, indicating that the costume was worn by Garland first and then assigned to Koshay.
After viewing what Thorpe had shot during his first weeks on the job, producer Mervyn LeRoy fired him and assigned visionary George Cukor as the next director; Cukor stayed on for a short time before the final director, Victor Fleming, took over. It is hard to imagine how The Wizard of Oz would have turned out had Richard Thorpe stayed at the helm; his ideas were so vastly different from the finished film.
Provenance: Sotheby's New York, tag reading 524/8 (original auction tags included).
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