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The best-screenplay prize awarded to Herman Mankiewicz for “Citizen Kane” fetched $588,455 in a Los Angeles sale.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fifteen Academy Awards statuettes from a 1930s as well as '40s, together with a Best Screenplay Oscar since to Herman Mankiewicz for Citizen Kane, have been sole during a Los Angeles auction.
Auction residence Nate D. Sanders pronounced Tuesday which a sales totaled some-more than $3 million.
Mankiewicz's 1941 endowment sole for $588,455, some-more than stand in a auction cost from 1999.
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The 1941 Best Picture award, for How Green Was My Valley, went for $274,520. It was final sole in 2004 for $95,600.
A statuette for Cavalcade, 1933's Best Picture, brought in $332,165.
Other Oscars upon a retard were Ronald Colman's 1947 Best Actor endowment for A Double Life and Charles Coburn's Best Supporting Actor statuette for The More a Merrier in 1943.
