Winter Auction 2015 closing February 7
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/8/2015
Among Frank Sinatra’s early film credits, Anchors Away is a whimsical musical co-starring Gene Kelly that won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Motion Picture. Sinatra and Kelly play a couple of sweet sentimental sailors during World War II. Sinatra’s “Clarence Doolittle,” idolizes and emulates Kelly’s “Joe Brady” and the pairs’ misadventures on a four-day leave in Hollywood, forms the film’s plot. Sinatra’s solo number “I Fall in Love too Easily,” was nominated for best song.
This two piece lot contains Sinatra’s Navy Sailor’s Uniform and cap. The Dark Blue wool navy suit contains a faux two-star medal on the left breast of the long sleeve shirt top with three white-stripes piping around the collar and shirt cuffs and a loose black satin sash. Sinatra’s name is handwritten on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer strip tag label on the shirt’s interior waist band. A similar label is sewn into the waistband of the lace-up pants and contains a handwritten “31.” Dirty white cotton sailor’s cap has size “7 3/8” and “Sinatra” written in black marker on the inside. Two-piece lot comes with Debbie Reynolds auction LOA signed by Debbie Reynolds.
This lot has a Reserve Price that has not been met.