Leonard Maltin’s Collection of Movie Memorabilia on eBay

Posted on December 2, 2014 at 8:00 am

The great critic and film historian Leonard Maltin has moved to a new home and so he is putting some of his fabulous collection of movie treasures up for auction on eBay.

Maltin writes:

Long ago I got hooked on pressbooks, those oversized, slick-paper campaign booklets that include movie ads and promotional gimmicks. I’m starting to weed out my collection, so if you’re interested in John Wayne titles like The Flying Leathernecks or The Sea Chase, an ad supplement for Bogart and Bacall in The Big Sleep (with a few ads cut out), Robert Youngson’s The Golden Age of Comedy and The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy, or a reissue of Laurel and Hardy’s Great Guns, take a look. I even have a 1949 reissue pressbook for King Kong which RKO paired with Val Lewton’s I Walked With a Zombie. There are plenty more to come.

We have an overabundance of Disney collectibles, from a charming 1940 Syroco figure of Pinocchio to a handful of limited-edition pieces from an old Disneyana convention. (My favorite is a figurine of Donald Duck striking the gong from the opening sequence of The Mickey Mouse Club.) There’s also a lovely ceramic lamp of Bambi from the 1940s manufactured by Goebel.

If there’s a movie fan on your gift list this year, you may find just the treasure you’re looking for here.

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Glenn Close Auctions Her Costumes for Charity

Posted on July 15, 2013 at 3:59 pm

Are you a “Damages” fan? Fancy yourself one of Cruella DeVille’s furry fashions? Glenn Close is auctioning off the clothes she wore as Patty Hughes and many other characters to raise money for her charity combating the stigma of mental illness.

It’s a first for me. But I took this step as a means to fight for awareness of something from which millions suffer — the toxic stigma and discrimination around mental illness. It’s a story I know well because its pain has touched lives very close to me.

Over the past 30 years, I have built up a significant costume collection — from Jenny’s Field’s handmade nurses uniform from “The World According to Garp” (my first film) to the evening gown covered with 10 pounds of beads in which I swept down Norma Desmond’s staircase in “Sunset Boulevard;” from Alex Forrest’s black leather coat to Cruella DeVil’s astounding frivolities; from Albert Nobbs’s bowler hat to Patty Hewes’s brilliant reinvention of the power suit.

Bidding goes through July 19.

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Ebay Auction Includes Meals With Stars and Walk-On Roles to Raise Money for Women Filmmakers

Posted on November 1, 2011 at 3:09 pm

The late Adrienne Shelly wrote and directed and co-starred in the adorable film, “Waitress” and opportunities were opening up for her when she was murdered. Her husband established a foundation in her memory to help female filmmakers and one of its grant recipients won an Oscar for a documentary they helped fund.

The fourth anniversary fund-raiser begins today with an Ebay auction that includes priceless opportunities for lunch or breakfast with top movie stars and behind-the-scene and walk-on opportunities. You can bid on these:

Exclusive breakfast/lunches with Paul Rudd, Michelle Williams, Meredith Vieira, Jon Hamm, Paul Haggis, Keri Russell, Jeremy Sisto, Lili Taylor, Gina Gershon, John Slattery, Rosario Dawson, Patricia Clarkson, Mark Cuban, Bill Hader, Susie Essman, Jonathan Tisch and many others
Today Show Tour with Al Roker and Live On-Air Spot
Walk-on roles for Hung, Community and Ted Hope film
Set visits to The Good Wife, Pan Am, Castle, Drop Dead Diva, Rachel Maddow Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews
VIP Tickets w/ Meet & Greets to Rachael Ray, Martha Stewart, Joan Rivers, The Wrap Up Show, The Soup, E! News
VIP NY Giants “Owner’s Box” Tickets, Field Passes and Signed Eli Manning Helmet
Happy Birthday telephone call from Bones stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz
VIP Tickets to Ellen, Two and Half Men, Letterman, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Chelsea Lately and The Colbert Report

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Dorothy’s Ruby Slipper on Ebay!

Posted on January 5, 2011 at 10:31 pm

Here’s your chance! A piece of movie magic is for sale on Ebay — one of the ruby slippers made for “The Wizard of Oz.” At least seven pair were made for the film and you can see one pair that appeared in the movie on display at the Smithsonian Museum of American History. (In the book, they were silver slippers, but red shows up better on film.)
Now’s your chance to have one for your own collection. It’s just one shoe, so you won’t be able to try clicking your heels together to see if they will take you home. Oh, and you’ll need $3 million, plus another $500 for shipping costs.
If you buy it, let me know!

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