By Iain Blair

If you love movies you can’t miss this: several famed Hollywood personal memorabilia collections are to be auctioned on April 5 when Heritage Auction Galleries presents the collections of icons & legends Stanley Kramer, Buddy Ebsen and others. One highlight has got to be Stanley Kramer’s stuff. After all, he directed and produced classics such as Judgment at Nuremberg, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and the hilarious It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Got some spare cash? Among the fascinating items to be offered are: Kramer’s Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, as well as signed scripts, documents and personal gifts from Spencer Tracy and John Wayne. And if you’re a Buddy Ebsen fan, key pieces include: Buddy’s personal script for the first episode of The Beverly Hillbillies and his original contract for the pilot; Hollywood costumes, including the tuxedo he wore while dancing with Judy Garland in the “Yours and Mine” number in Broadway Melody of 1938, letters, awards, musical instruments, photographs; even the respirator he used after his near-fatal lung infection on The Wizard of Oz.

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