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Slip Slidin’ Away: The Theft of Judy Garland’s Ruby Slippers

Ridiculous Crime

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The Golden Calf and Tablets

Michael Shaw is an avid collector of film memorabilia. He owns a gown from the 1938 film Marie Antoinette. And the Golden Calf and tablets from Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 film The Ten Commandments. When he was working as a Hollywood costumer, Kent Warner found three pairs of prop shoes, as well as an off screen test pair of Ruby slippers in a warehouse season. So Shaw picks up the slippers as well as Dorothy's Gingham dress, Munchkin costume, and the wicked witch of the West hat and her broomstick.

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