Catholic University wants to sell a blue gingham dress worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” at auction, for an estimated price of $800,000 to $1.2 million. But an 81-year-old retired schoolteacher now says the dress is hers.
The last time one of Garland’s gingham dresses from the movie sold was in 2015, for $1.5 million.The donation of the dress to Catholic in 1973 was a news-making event, in part because it was donated by Oscar-winning actress Mercedes McCambridge, who was then an artist-in-residence at the school’s drama department. McCambridge had been close to Garland, and both had endured drug and alcohol addictions. Garland died in 1969 at the age of 47.
In honor of Garland, McCambridge donated the Dorothy dress to Hartke and Catholic in hopes that it would be “a source of hope, strength and courage to the students,” the Tower article stated. The lawyers for Catholic, Amin Al-Sarraf and Shawn Brenhouse, noted in a letter to the federal court in New York that the university “has an unrebutted presumption of ownership through possession of the dress for nearly 50 years,” as well as the apparent lack of claim to any personal or real property by Gilbert Hartke at the time of his death. They note that Hartke never took the dress home, even after he retired in 1974.
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