Saturday Night Fever, Tony Manero dress sold. Great memorabilia up for auction. PHOTO

Record price at auction for the iconic white suit worn by John Travolta in the cult film Saturday night fever (1977): the American actor’s complete costume was auctioned by Julien’s Auction in Beverly Hills, California, for 260,000 dollars (about 235,000 euros) and is considered one of the most famous costumes in the history of cinema

Tony Manero’s dress sold at auction. Franco Ferraro’s service

The dress was sold during the dispersion of the “Hollywood: Classic & Contemporary” catalog which auctioned off, for just under $89,000, also a hall program signed by Marilyn Monroe and other stars for the birthday celebration of then US President John F. Kennedy in May 1962

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A bamboo walking stick belonged to Charlie Chaplin it was auctioned for $39,000. A Golden Globe trophy won by Maximilian Schell (1930-2014) for his role in the film Stalin (1992) sold for $16,000. Among the many prominent objects of the auction in California also the machete held by Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Dooma helmet from Captain Americaa hoverboard used by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Futurethe original wig worn by Theda Bara in the film Cleopatra of 1917

Charlie Chaplin’s archive released in Aosta

But the most expensive props auctioned are others, like the silver Aston Martin of James Bond that appears in Goldfinger in 1964 and on Thunderballs the following year which was sold for £2.6 million (about $4.4 million) in 2010

The most expensive piece of film memorabilia in history is obviously the notorious white dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in 1955 at When the wife is on vacation which was part of the Debbie Reynolds collection and was auctioned in 2011 for $4.6 million

Also sold at the same session was the white lace dress and matching hat worn by Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady for $3.7 million

The cowardly lion costume de The Wizard of Oz it was purchased by the Arizona Museum of TV in 2014 for $3 million. Dorothy’s red shoes, worn by Judy Garland also in Victor Fleming’s 1939 classic, sold for $666,000 at auction

The dresses, made from curtains, worn by the Von Trapp children as they sit on the grass singing Do-Re-Mi in the 1965 film All together passionately they sold for a staggering $1.5 million in 2013

Audrey Hepburn’s little black dress, made by Givenchy, worn in Breakfast at Tiffany’sof 1961 was expected to auction for about $130,000, but finally sold for $807,000 in 2006

James Bond’s white Lotus Esprit in The spy who loved me, was sold in its storage container to an unsuspecting buyer in 1989 for less than $100. Once the container’s precious contents were discovered, it was auctioned off for $860,000 in 2013.

In 2011 the Panavision used by George Lucas for the filming of Star Wars: Episode IV was auctioned off for $625,000, while the miniature of the TIE, the starfighter that in Star Wars Episode IV guides Luke Skywalker against the Death Star, fetched a record $402,500 in 2008. The lightsaber used by Luke Skywalker in Episodes IV and V, made from a camera flash tube, sold for $240,000 in 2008

The dress worn by Kate Winslet in the scene of meeting Jack Dawson in TitanicJames Cameron’s 1997 classic, fetched $330,000 at auction

Four copies of the legendary sword of Aragorn used by Viggo Mortensen during the filming of Aragorn were made The Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King. One of these was sold at a public auction for $437,000

The glasses worn by Daniel Radcliffe in the first film of the saga harry potter, The philosopher’s Stone, they made the beauty of 18,750 dollars in 2012 in Hollywood, more or less 17,000 euros

During a Prop Store auction, Hoverboard by Back to the Future IIautographed by Michael J. Fox, sold for $506,000

The robot of ET it was auctioned off for $2.5 million in 2022

Jack Torrance’s jacket in Shining Of Stanley Kubrick it was auctioned in Turin in 2018 for 24 thousand euros (with rights). In the same session, the orange diamond-patterned carpet of the Colorado Lounge, where the mad protagonist “works” on his novel inside the Overlook Hotel, was sold for 16,250 euros, while the long film fragment with the Wendy scene carries his son Danny in his arms was sold for 8,100 euros

The classic 1929 Duesenberg used in the 1966 film Spinouts starring Elvis Presley was sold in 2011 for $1.2 million

Record auction for a pair of Michael Jordan sneakers