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Top-selling items in the live online auction
included a classic 1930 Ford convertible that was seen in the
opening of Day's 1980s talk show "Doris Day's Best Friends". The
car sold for $96,000. A Golden Globe award she received in 1962
went for $25,600.
All proceeds from the sale of more than 1,100 items will benefit
the Doris Day Animal Foundation that the singer and actress
founded in 1978. Julien's Auctions had estimated the sale would
bring in between $300,000 and $600,000.
Day, the cheery, girl next door who was one of the biggest stars
of the 1950s and 1960s, died in May 2019 at the age of 97 in the
Carmel, California, home she had made her refuge from Hollywood.
The auction featured Day's piano, gowns, furniture and dozens of
artifacts reflecting her passion for animals including numerous
ceramic dogs, birds, decorative pigs and pictures of giraffes
and other critters that adorned her rustic home.
A planter decorated with brass elephants that was a gift from
friend and actor Rock Hudson sold for $15,625, as did a 14-karat
gold poodle charm bracelet.
Other highlights included a Cartier brooch with 27 round
diamonds that Day was photographed wearing in the late 1970s. It
sold for $40,625, well above the estimate of $800 to $1,200. Her
director's chair from the television show "The Doris Day Show"
fetched $16,000.
The auction had been scheduled to take place in Beverly Hills,
but it was moved to a live-streamed format due to the global
coronavirus outbreak.
(This story corrects total to nearly $3 million, not more than
$3 million, in lead paragraph
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
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