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A Mitzi Gaynor bicycle given to her by Bing Crosby
10 December 2019, 14:00 PST
Los AngelesSold for US$1,020 inc. premium
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A Mitzi Gaynor bicycle given to her by Bing Crosby
Royal Sports Lightweight blue single-speed 1950s bicycle with a red leather seat, made in England, with a hand-painted sign affixed to the handlebars inscribed, "A Fugitive from the Zanick [sic] Salt Mines / Mitzi," with an illustration of Mitzi in a leggy dancing costume with a top hat. The studio photographer was on hand when Crosby jokingly gave Mitzi this bicycle which presumably freed her from the clutches of her contract at Twentieth Century-Fox and into the arms of a waiting Paramount Pictures to film Anything Goes (1956) with the famous crooner. Accompanied by a photo of Bing gifting the bicycle to Mitzi on the set of the film.
20 x 37 x 66 in.
20 x 37 x 66 in.


















