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Lucille Ball polka dot dress sold for $168K

Tuesday, August 06, 2013
In this undated TV image originally released by CBS, Vivian Vance, left, and Lucille Ball are shown in a scene from the comedy series, I Love Lucy. Ball, who died on April 26, 1989, would have celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011.

In this undated TV image originally released by CBS, Vivian Vance, left, and Lucille Ball are shown in a scene from the comedy series, "I Love Lucy." Ball, who died on April 26, 1989, would have celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011. (AP Photo / CBS, file)

Lucille Ball's polka dot dress sold at a Hollywood memorabilia auction.

Also, sold- Charlie Chaplin's cane, costumes from "The Sound of Music" and a jacket worn by Steve McQueen in "Bullitt" have sold for several million dollars at an auction of Hollywood memorabilia.

The Los Angeles Times reports that a cane from Chaplin's "Modern Times" went for $420,000 at the auction held Sunday and Monday. That includes auction house fees.

Calabasas-based Profiles in History says the "Sound of Music" clothing went for $1.56 million, including the dress Julie Andrews wore while singing "Do-Re-Mi."

The tweed jacket from "Bullitt" fetched $720,000.

A Dorothy dress from "The Wizard of Oz" sold for $360,000, a polka dot dress worn by Lucille Ball went for $168,000, and $54,000 was the price for an outfit worn by (The Dude) - Jeff Bridges - in "The Big Lebowski."

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