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Blondie's (Clint Eastwood) shirt from Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Blondie-aka The Man With No Name-wore his distinctive black-and-white patterned shirt during the first half of the film, from the shooting of three bounty hunters to the stagecoach scenes in the desert. He also wore his shirt in the memorable scene where Tuco (Eli Wallach) returned to try and hang Blondie.
Eastwood wore two slightly different styles of this shirt in the film-one with pleated pockets and one with flat pockets. This shirt of the flat-pocket style comes from the archives of the Italian costume company Costumi d'Arte.
Although the film initially met with mixed reviews, it is considered by many to be the greatest Western of all time, and it catapulted Eastwood to movie superstardom. This was Eastwood's third and final time playing The Man With No Name, following Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.
The black cotton shirt has an interior label from Italian costume supplier Costumi d'Arte Peruzzi. It features two chest pockets, a grandad-style collar, and a white circles-and-spots pattern. This item is likely to have been rented to numerous productions over the decades since filming. Some minor modifications may have taken place during that time and the shirt has been repaired in several places since the production.
Additional Provenance: This lot comes from the archives of famed Italian costume company Costumi d'Arte. The company has supplied costumes to some of the world's biggest film productions for over 100 years.
Estimate: $30,000 - 60,000