Antiques Commerce Gazette’s weekly selecting of merchandise that caught bidders’ consideration entails a swimsuit placed on by Robert De Niro in a distinguished scene from ‘The Godfather Half II’. It greater than doubled it’s approximate worth at an public sale occasion in Hertfordshire.
Vito Corleone’s (Robert De Niro) screen-matched brown pea-coat was drawn from Francis Ford Coppola’s Academy Award-winning gangster sequel The Godfather: Half II. The younger Vito Andolini left Sicily and was named after his hometown, Corleone, as his surname by immigration division officers at Ellis Island upon arrival in the US in 1901. He placed on his peculiar pea-coat on quite a few events together with throughout a home theft he did with Clemenza (Bruno Kirby).
The brown woolen pea-coat has ten tortoiseshell picket buttons on the entrance finish and a further button sewn into the interior lining. It additionally has two vast aspect pockets in addition to a pocket on the upper-left breast. The coat is categorized on the sample of its buttons. It’s labeled with a paper wardrobe tag marked “40 #52” and tailor-made to De Niro’s specs. The coat shows some modifications performed to chips on the buttons alongside smaller fraying of the wool.
The outfit, modelled by Theadora Van Runkle, who achieved an Academy Award nomination for her design work on Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 masterpiece, options in the direction of the tail finish of the movie when Vito Corleone goes again to Sicily together with his household.
In a distinguished scene, placing on this costume, he depicts revenge on native Mafia boss Don Ciccio (Giuseppe Sillato) for the killing of his father, gapping his intestine with a kitchen knife.
The outfit bears the tag of the Western Costume Co. The tag has the identify De Niro and his waist measurements of 31″.
Supplied with a lead of 10,000-20,000 kilos on the Propstore sale of leisure memorabilia in Rickmansworth on November 9, it accepted 50,000 kilos from an web bidder.
In a current interview when De Niro and Al Pacino met, the 2 gave a reminisce of their epic in performing and movie manufacturing.
“It’s not that you simply’re aggressive,” mentioned De Niro about his lengthy friendship with Pacino. “You’re up for a similar elements. Like Godfather—Francis wished Al. However each actor knew about it, and I believe the studio was forcing him to look [elsewhere],” he added.
“We obtained collectively early on,” mentioned Al Pacino, gesturing at Robert De Niro. “And we shared one thing, which was an enormous factor on the time.” The 2 males have been sitting in a resort suite in New York, attempting to sum up 50 years of friendship and the bizarre, singular bond that comes from being two of essentially the most heralded actors of their era. The balcony door was open, to catch the September breeze. Final night time Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, through which they each star, had premiered on the New York Movie Competition, they usually’d spent almost each hour since being fêted. And so, regardless of their typically formidable reputations, there was a sweetness about them. “New York Movie Competition, this can be a prestigious movie competition!” mentioned Pacino earnestly.
