May 30, 2013

Elizabeth Taylor's first stunning wedding dress up for auction


sources: Reuters
The marriage dress worn by film star Elizabeth Taylor for her first marriage to hotel heir Conrad Hilton in 1950 will go for sale next month, ah Christie's said on Friday.

The straightforward, but elegant garment produced by Hollywood costume designer Helen Rose with the then 18-year-old Taylor is definitely an oyster shell-colored, floor-length satin gown that has a fine silk gauze off-the-shoulder illusion neckline.

The dress, that was a present from MGM film studios, incorporates a top estimate of 50,000 pounds ($75,300). Rose also designed Grace Kelly's stunning wedding dress for my child marriage to the Prince of Monaco.

By the time Taylor married Hilton she was already a veteran actress and was just a year far from her Oscar-nominated performance in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "A location in the sunshine".

The A-directory old Hollywood - Greer Garson, Gene Kelly, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Esther Williams, and Van Johnson - were bar stools on sale stars who located congratulate their bride-to-be.

The star of "Cleopatra" surpassed Michael Jackson because highest-earning deceased celebrity inside a survey released by Forbes in October 2012, together with her estate getting $210 million, high of it from the 2011 auction of jewels, costumes and art work.

The auction of Taylor's jewels took in $116 million, over double the record for just a single collection, and set new marks for pearls, colorless diamonds and Indian jewels.

Taylor, who died in 2011 at the age of 79, was married eight times, twice to actor Richard Burton, together work spanning seven decades.

She first gained fame in 1944's "National Velvet" when he was 12, and was nominated for five Oscars, winning best actress for "Butterfield 8" (1960) and "Who's Scared of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), this starred Burton.

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