If you’ve got ever fancied your self as a disco legend — and, let’s be sincere, who hasn’t? — this might be your probability, as John Travolta’s “Saturday Night Fever” swimsuit goes up for public sale.
The most well-known three items of polyester in film historical past are going underneath the hammer in California this month, providing one fortunate purchaser the chance to set the dance flooring on hearth — simply do not get too near the bare flames.
The wing-lapelled swimsuit, through which a dashing younger Travolta broke many a Nineteen Seventies coronary heart, is the centerpiece of the “Hollywood: Classic and Contemporary” assortment at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills.
“I mean, this is the disco era,” stated public sale home chief govt Martin Nolan. “This is what we remember. When people talk about disco, you think of ‘Saturday Night Fever,’ you think of the Bee Gees, you think of John Travolta.”
The swimsuit, with its excessive waistband, flared pant legs and — presumably — an inexhaustible provide of static electrical energy, is anticipated to fetch as much as $200,000 on the public sale on April 22-23.
But, says Nolan, it might go even larger.
The providing is certainly one of round 1,400 gadgets up for grabs at an public sale that runs the gamut of the final 100 years of cinema.
Other memorabilia embrace Charlie Chaplin’s cane, a hoverboard from “Back to the Future III” and the unique headdress worn by Theda Bara in 1917’s “Cleopatra.”
Harry Potter followers will be capable of bid on varied prop wands, whereas there may also be costumes from franchises together with “John Wick”, “Batman,” “Iron Man” and “Star Wars.”
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