As Hollywood legend has it, Joan Crawford feigned illness before the 1946 Academy Award ceremony. Nominated for her starring role in Mildred Pierce—which many people considered her comeback vehicle after a two-year absence from the screen—Crawford believed that Ingrid Bergman would win the Oscar for The Bells of St. Mary’s and did not want to be present for the loss. After discovering that she had won, however, she reportedly applied her makeup and invited members of the press into her bedroom as she accepted her statuette in bed. Can you guess how much the legendary Oscar—the only Academy Award that Crawford won in her nearly five-decade career—sold for on the auction block on Tuesday?

The answer: $426,732. To put this figure in perspective, in 2001 Steven Spielberg paid $578,000 for the Academy Award that belonged to Crawford’s arch rival, Bette Davis, for her role inJezebel. Spielberg paid even more—$607,500—for Clark Gable’s It Happened One Night trophy. In December 2011, Orson Welles’s Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay to Citizen Kane sold for approximately $862,000 at the L.A. auction house Nate D. Sanders, which also facilitated the Crawford-award sale. After paying that much, it’s likely that these deep-pocketed buyers transported their new hardware in something more substantial than a paper bag.

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One Item of Screen Worn Batman Memorabilia That We Have Sold:

The Batsuit Worn by Michael Keaton in ”Batman Returns” From 1992 — Measures Over 6′ Tall on Custom Display

Michael Keaton’s Batsuit from Tim Burton’s hit superhero film ”Batman Returns”, which smashed box office records when it opened in 1992. Body of batsuit is in formed black rubber segments covered by the textured integral cape and cowl style mask, with long black leather gloves, boots and gold plastic belt and bat symbol. Original parts of the costume worn in the film are the cowl, cape and body; the gloves, belt, insignia and shoes are replicas for the display. Costume comes displayed dramatically on a mannequin with chiseled face of Keaton, mounted to a 2′ square gray-white base with ”BATMAN RETURNS” at front center. Batsuit measures 6’5” tall and approximately 27” at the widest point of the cape. Some glue present where cape and cowl meet, overall very good condition.  Sold in January 2017 for $41,250.

The Batsuit Worn by Michael Keaton in ”Batman Returns” From 1992 — Measures Over 6′ Tall on Custom Display