Lot Essay
According to the vendor, these shorts were won in a competition in Picturegoer magazine circa 1956.
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William Holden/Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing, 1955
A pair of swimming shorts of brown cotton, labelled inside Western Costume Co., Hollywood, the label with typescript details No: 99-2714-l, Name: Bill Holden, Waist: 33 -- made for William Holden for the beach scene with Jennifer Jones in the 1955 T.C.F. film Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
A pair of swimming shorts of brown cotton, labelled inside Western Costume Co., Hollywood, the label with typescript details No: 99-2714-l, Name: Bill Holden, Waist: 33 -- made for William Holden for the beach scene with Jennifer Jones in the 1955 T.C.F. film Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
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Photograph courtesy of The Ronald Grant Archive.