Godfather Script Fetches $312,800 At Christie's Marlon Brando Sale

Marlon Brando's legacy was honored at Christie's this past Thursday, June 30, during The Personal Property of Marlon Brando auction as it went 98 percent sold with an impressive sales total of $2,378,300 garnered. Telephone bidders from all across the world joined a packed saleroom at Christie's in a six-and-a-half hour marathon auction that paid homage to a cultural icon many regard as the greatest actor of the postwar generation.

Memorabilia relating to Brando's depiction of Don Corleone in The Godfather dominated the day's proceedings. A hushed, expectant saleroom filled with more than 500 spectators and bidders witnessed Brando's annotated film script, estimated at $10/15,000, fetch a staggering $312,800.

Setting a new world auction record for a film script at auction, it was bought by an anonymous phone bidder. The previous record stood at $244,500, set at Christie's New York in 1996 for Clark Gable's Gone With The Wind script.