Martin Nolan, Executive Director of Julien's Auctions, joins Cheddar News to discuss its 'Hollywood Legends' auction.

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Iconic Marilyn Monroe Memorabilia and Marvel Props to be Auctioned Off 

Welcome back to Between Bells. Everyone looking to the future is always fun. But looking at the past sometimes is even better, especially when it's at some of the most iconic and fascinating objects ever used by Hollywood's biggest stars and legends. A four day auction dedicated to featuring top blockbuster relics begins this friday live at julien's auctions in Beverly Hills and online if you have time and some money to spare over 16,000 Hollywood artifacts will be offered to the public joining us live from julien's auction house says martin Nolan, executive director of julien's auctions. Martin welcome to the show. Can't wait to talk about everything behind you, especially the Captain America shield. You don't have to be a movie or tv buff to recognize these iconic items. Why is it so important for julien's auctions and Turner classic movies to offer these items we're seeing. Yeah. So these are incredible historic pieces. Some people look upon them as investment pieces, but also we're all nostalgic. We want to own something from our favorite movies are worn by an actor that we love are an actress that we love and you know, turner classic movies, They create amazing movies to show these movies to talk about the props, to talk about the fashion in the movie at the particular era and then it comes to Julian's accident. We have these amazing exhibitions and then we fell off the items everywhere around the world. People can participate, go to Julian's life dot com or come to a gallery in Beverly Hills, be a part of our pop culture, history and own something really cool And as you said, everyone has something that they love and this is the opportunity for them to own one of those more pieces. Well, we know a centerpiece of this event is Marilyn Monroe items. Talk to me about the significance of this martin. And are those dresses next to you worn by Marilyn Monroe ones? Yeah, so mary Monroe 60 years since she passed away, she would have just celebrated her 96th birthday in june and she still thought after highly collectible, that dress here. There's no business like show business. She was singing, You can't You don't want what you got when you got it, Vicky Parker, 1950 for 20th Century Fox Estimated 80 to 100,000 designed by Billy Trivia who worked on eight of marlin Monroe's movies. So amazing. Blue tail, incredible. You can see the image of her, they're wearing that dress incredible. In fact she was, he was entitled to play the role in this movie if they promised her and the guarantee that she would get the lead role in seven year age the following year, which of course did happen. So again, this is incredible but amazing items also worn by Marilyn Monroe and jane Russell in Gentlemen prefer blondes, that other dress. It's in fact a two piece outfit. It's designed for Audrey Hepburn in the movie breakfast at Tiffany's in 1961 incredible movie, a very fun day when she and George Peppard as paul and holly go lightly. They went around new york city, they went to Tiffany's and went to the new york public library, they went to the five and dime store and Polly dear paul to actually shoplift something. He had never done that before. She has and so it was a fun day. She wears an orange coat over this outfit. It's very iconic, estimated. 40 to 60,000 Canada. These are conservative auction estimate because when the bidding probably comes to Julian doctrine this weekend are Julian's life dot com. You know, there's been from all over the world museum investors, fans, collectors all want to own something from this incredible historic option with Turner classic movies. I'm so fascinated to see how much this will go for because you're right, all these pieces are iconic. I want to talk about some of the more timely pieces. A lot of marvel items here, chris Hemsworth original thor dark World hammer prop chris Evans, Captain America the first Avenger prop shield, are you expecting marvel fans, especially with the hit thor movie in theaters doing so well to come out of the woodwork for this. Yes, there'll be love and hunger this weekend's incredible items and yes, This new movie is really, really amazing blockbuster and of course people are hopping back to 2012. So again, very collectible network. In fact, this poor hammer, it's very lightweight. It looks heavy, in fact, this is and this is not real leather here, but it's just incredible. I can leave, this is used in the same for maneuverability. There's other hammers that were made quite heavy but this one is quite easy to maneuver. But looking at it, it looks really obviously very, very heavy. Harry potter also included this weekend, great items and of course we have the wand, which is one of the most the elder ones, the ones in this most important. Really incredible. And waving you and telling you some magical misery there for you. I have to ask is this shield heavy? This field is quite heavy actually. It's it's yeah, quite heavy. There's two original letter stop to the back so you can hold it up and all that. But right now it's holding on here just very dangerous because I'm afraid anything will happen to it. But actually it's quite heavy compared to this. I have about 30 seconds left, tell me how TMC plays a role into this Martin. Yes. So together we, so KMC is the importance of the objects, the items, the fashion in the movies that they created and they are shown and they talk about on their channel and so we collaborate again because they see us as part of it because we're the ones that can bring the items to the people. We give people an opportunity to own the actual items that they see in their favorite movies, like the Star Wars. Star tuber helmet. I mean that's incredible. Very first Star Wars incredible things in all of these franchises like Star Wars or harry potter or the Avengers of tour movies and on, on and then you have the classics like the breakfast at Tiffany. No business like show business gentlemen prefer plants again over 1700 items this weekend. Four days, of course, James Garner takes kicks off on friday. We have items from Maverick and Rockford files, incredible auction. This is a diverse auction. There's animation, their jewelry from Elizabeth taylor, beautiful outfits worn by Elizabeth Taylor, incredibly collectible and highly sought after as well. A much beloved actress. Of course, I'm so jealous of where you're standing. I would be like a kid in a candy store. This is incredible. We hope you come back. I want to see how much these items are selling for martin Nolan, executive director of julien's auctions, julien's auctions and Turner, classic movies, Hollywood legends auction kicking off friday july 15th. Thank you Julian, please come back