Most expensive costume from a film
- Who
- Marilyn Monroe's 'Happy birthday, Mr President' dress
- What
- 2,845,101,61 UK pound(s) sterling
- Where
- United Kingdom
- When
- 18 June 2011
The most expensive costume from a film is Marilyn Monroe's The Seven Year Itch dress, sold for $4,600,000 USD (€3,223,545,9, £2,845,101,61) at Beverly Hills Auction, California, USA, on 18 June 2011.
Monroe’s white dress from The Seven Year Itch is one of the most iconic costumes in film history. The dress in which she sang ‘Happy Birthday, Mr President’ to John F Kennedy proved even more valuable, raising $4.8m.