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A pair of screen-worn black gloves from Star Wars: Episode IV–A New Hope, worn by Kermit Eller as Darth Vader in personal appearances image 1
A pair of screen-worn black gloves from Star Wars: Episode IV–A New Hope, worn by Kermit Eller as Darth Vader in personal appearances image 2
Lot 1197

A pair of screen-worn black gloves from Star Wars: Episode IV–A New Hope, worn by Kermit Eller as Darth Vader in personal appearances

10 December 2019, 14:00 PST
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A pair of screen-worn black gloves from Star Wars: Episode IV–A New Hope, worn by Kermit Eller as Darth Vader in personal appearances

Lucasfilm, 1977. Black leather gauntlet-style mid-length gloves with a stitched stripe quilted pattern that ends at the knuckle. Worn in the film and subsequently used by Eller from 1977-79 in appearances as Darth Vader; retained by him with permission when the old Vader suit was switched out for the new. With vintage photographs by Bill Malone of Eller in the original suit. In a simpler time when a film costume was not the valuable commodity that it is today, Bryce "Kermit" Eller wore the original–and only–Darth Vader costume from the film to public appearances all over the country. His appearances as Darth Vader were not limited to charity events and shopping malls, however. As Vader, Eller stuck his boots in wet cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, was a presenter at the 1978 Academy Awards® (posing for photographs with Natalie Wood), posed for a best-selling poster, and performed with Paul Lynde in a Star Wars musical parody on The Donny and Marie Show, all while wearing the original suit and gloves that were used in the film.
7 x 13 in.

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