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.
