However, Judy Garland's dress was not the only highlight of the two-day Hollywood Icons auction.
That film has long since been forgotten and Judy Garland's performance as Dorothy has become iconic.
Sales of the song, from the 1939 musical starring Judy Garland, have soared since Lady Thatcher's death.
Mr. Wainwright, a singer-songwriter who also does things like re-enact iconic Judy Garland concerts, is a fervent opera fan.
The Hotel Savoy (Norra Vallgatan 62) was once the city's swankiest hotel, welcoming luminaries like Judy Garland and Marlene Dietrich.
The Wizard of Oz launched the young Judy Garland into stardom and has become one of Hollywood's classic family films.
In 2005 Shaw lent his slippers to the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minn. (birthplace of Garland, n??e Frances Gumm).
The Witch Is Dead - from the 1939 musical film the Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland - reached number two in the music charts.
Don't ask me how, but he can insert his name into "Somewhere over the Rainbow" and make you forget all about Judy Garland.
The original song was performed in the 1939 Judy Garland film by characters celebrating the demise of the much-hated Wicked Witch of the East.
Though her research helped her, particularly books like John Meyer's "Heartbreaker: A Memoir of Judy Garland, " too much information could get in the way.
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When Judy Garland died, she and a friend took a bus to the Frank Campbell funeral home to soak up the experience and observe celebrities.
Frank Zappa and Judy Garland both lived there at some point.
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Meanwhile, as well as being written to establish the mood of the film, the song was also required to be a showcase for the talents of Judy Garland.
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The MGM movie has been, over the decades, almost too successful: Few producers wanted to return to Oz for fear of competing with Judy Garland, Frank Morgan and company.
Whether occupying a room in which Judy Garland stayed or sitting next to Catherine Denueve at the hip Hotel Costes in Paris, there are plenty of one-of-a-kind ways to vacation.
Previously, the story had twice been filmed as a drama - with Janet Gaynor playing an aspiring actress in the 1937 original, and Judy Garland and James Mason taking the leads in the 1954 version.
Which brings us back to Judy Garland.
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The MGM movie became a classic (more so in rereleases in theaters and on TV) by virtue of its star, Judy Garland, and its supporting cast, and because, unlike its predecessors, it hewed remarkably faithfully to Baum's original book.
Vasco travels over the ocean and over the rainbow, where he meets Judy Garland and the Tinman, to say nothing of Miss Universe perched on the moon in a gorgeous light (the part was gorgeously sung by Janice Felty).
Pieces of trivia are interspersed between the costumes: did you know that the ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz were designed to contrast with the yellow brick road and show off the new wonders of Technicolor?
However, in the video above Ferreira revealed why Minnelli could not sing: she was too touched because Liza has always thought that Bibi looks like her mother, Judy Garland, who was one year older than Bibi and died aged 47.
For instance: "You could say one wine is like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz while another is like the mature Judy Garland, or that a big voluptuous chardonnay is like Marilyn Monroe -- round, bosomy -- you can remember that chardonnay, " says MacNeil.
Previous winners of the Cecil B DeMille Award - named for the famed director of The Ten Commandments and The Greatest Show on Earth - include Robert DeNiro, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Al Pacino and Morgan Freeman, who was awarded the honour earlier this year.
"When they sat down to write Over The Rainbow, they were writing for somebody who had the vocal range and the sincerity and the capability of communication that those in the know in Hollywood already felt she had, " explained Ken Sefton of the Judy Garland Club.
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The surging vitality of the script allows the actors (Will Ferrell, Uma Thurman, and Roger Bart, among others) to find sure footing, and Gary Beach gives a standout performance as the drag-wearing musical director who eventually is called upon to star (his Judy Garland bit is priceless).
Among the collection's thousands of metal and lacquer discs and master mono tapes are released and unreleased versions of recordings by such seminal artists as Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday, the Andrews Sisters, Connee Boswell, Jimmy Dorsey, the Mills Brothers, Guy Lombardo, Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Waring, Judy Garland, and Dinah Washington, among others.
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