Dear Miss Boodles,
Just watched Antiques
Roadshow from Los Angeles, and they did a side bar field trip to the Academy of
Motion Pictures library. There they pulled out some costume design sketches and
appraised them. Dorothy Jeakins sketches for Joan of Arc with Ingrid Bergman
approximately $2,000
Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc
James Dean in Giant
$5,000 - $6,000
James Dean in Giant
and Walter Plunkett’s acid green “drapery” dress for Vivienne Leigh
in Gone With The Wind, $12,000 - $15,000
(of course).
Vivienne Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in the drapery dress
They stressed the
importance of accompanying the original sketches with production stills from
the films showing the costumes as worn by the actors. It greatly increases the
value of the sketches. We need to immediately start searching for original
production stills for all of your movies. I will do this for you online if you
want, just let me know. I know that you
have kept many of the great costumes from Faye Dunaway in Bonnie & Clyde,
so you can only imagine the value, especially for such a seminal film. Oh well,
I’m always harping on this, but Boodles, your designs are very important and must be
preserved for posterity.
Here
is a little book of sketches by Pascin which I love and thought would inspire
you.
The artist Jules Pascin
Your
drawings are as good as these. The proportion of the legs is wonderfully
distorted, especially since he draws the women from the level of the pussy
looking upward… He adored women and was obsessed with sex. Poor thing finally
committed suicide for reasons that nobody knew. Bipolar? Je ne çe pas.
Also,
some music that I compiled for your listening enjoyment. Maude Maggart is a
local LA girl with a wonderful voice.
Maude Maggart
Noel
Coward would have loved this gal.
Noel Coward
She
performs sometimes at the Gardenia and she’s the sister of Fiona Apple.
Fiona Apple
And
finally a photo of Raquel Welch in your great costume design from Myra.
Gawd!!
Raquel
in Myra bathing suit
