Dress from The Wizard of Oz must fetch mega amount

Almost everyone has seen the world-famous 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, where Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale hops down the yellow brick road . One of the blue and white dresses Garland wore in the film is expected to fetch €1.1 million at auction.Text: Patrick Stoffer
Image: Warner BrosThe dress was missing for years, but was recovered last summer. A drama professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington received the dress as a gift in 1973 from Hollywood actress Mercedes McCambride. Not much later, the garment went missing, but was found last summer in a bag during renovations. On May 24, the dress will be auctioned off by auction house Bonhams in Los Angeles.

Incidentally, this is not the first time a costume from The Wizard of Oz has gone under the hammer. Another dress with a blouse worn by Garland in the film already fetched over €1.4 million in 2015. The costume from The Frightened Lion was also auctioned off, fetching nearly €2.9 million in 2014.