‘Sound of Music’ Von Trapp togs fetch $1.56 million at auction [Updated]

A cane from Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times� sold for $420,000 and a collection of costumes from “The Sound Music� -- including the Von Trapp children’s drapery outfits and the brown dress Julie Andrews wore while singing “Do-Re-Mi� -- fetched an eye-popping $1.56 million at a July 28 and 29 Hollywood memorabilia auction, according to Calabasas-based Profiles in History auction house.

Both of those bids (like the other figures here, the amount given is the final “hammer price,� which includes fees paid to the auction house) exceeded expectations, with the cane selling for more than double its $120,000 to $150,000 pre-auction estimate and the “Sound of Music� costumes going for $360,000 above the $800,000 to $1.2 million estimate’s high-water mark.

According to the final bid results announced by the company Wednesday, other wardrobe pieces that beat pre-auction estimates include one of Dorothy’s dresses from “The Wizard of Oz� (which sold for $360,000), a polka dot dress Lucille Ball wore as Lucy Ricardo ($168,000) and an outfit worn by Jeff Bridges as the Dude in “The Big Lebowski� ($54,000 -- which would buy, as the Dude might point out, a lot of White Russians).

A brown tweed jacket worn by Steve McQueen in “Bullitt� (which we told you about last month) was expected to fetch somewhere in the neighborhood of $800,000 but failed to meet the minimum reserve bid and did not sell at the auction.*

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[Updated 8/1/2013, 11:51 a.m.: Based on information provided by the auction house, an earlier version of this post stated that McQueen jacket sold for $720,000. We’ve since been told that the minimum reserve price was not met and the jacket did not sell.]