$2,560
An ecru with handpainted silver striping period costume worn by Joan Fontaine as Dona St. Columb, an aristocratic English woman who falls in love with a French pirate in Frenchman's Creek (Paramount, 1944). The costume comprises a polonaise with boned and corseted bodice with puffed sleeves with organdy and re-embroidered lace to interior and attached draped overskirt with a Paramount label that reads "J.Fontain [sic]"; a full skirt with decorative ruching to the graduated hemline and a Paramount label inscribed "J. Fontain [sic]"; and a small coin pouch. Costume design by Raoul Pene Du Bois. Accompanied by four black and white studio images of Fontaine in the costume. PROVENANCE From the Collection of Glenn Brown Categories:
Auctioneer:
Juliens Auctions
Date:
2014-04-11
