Ava Gardner Personally Owned & Worn 1960's Blue Beaded Gown from Costumer

Description

This is a very nice condition long blue long sleeve beaded with plunging back gown that was owned & worn By Legendary Actress Ava Gardner. It is in very good condition for the age. It looks to be a smaller size like a 7/8.
It is from the Personal collection of late costumer and wardrobe man Kent Warner. He is best known for liberating the ruby slippers from the 1970 MGM Costume and Prop Sale. The winner of this item will receive a typed letter signed in ink on typewriter paper stating how he worked in the industry and met and became close friends with Ava who gave him this item to add to his collection. The letter has been notarized.
This is a beautiful Dress from a Fashion Icon, Don't miss out on it.
Kent Phillip Warner
(March 8, 1943 – April 25, 1984, age: 41 years) was a costume designer, best known for acquiring the ruby slippers from the film
The Wizard of Oz
prior to the 1970 MGM Auction. He is known to have found four pairs used in the film, (of five pairs that have surfaced). One pair he sold to memorabilia collector Michael Shaw in 1970 for ,500. These ruby slippers were later stolen from the JG Museum near Garland's birthplace in Minnesoata. sometime between August 27–28, 2005. Speculation persists that it was an inside job as the alarms did not sound. They have been recovered
since.
Of the several pairs of ruby slippers Warner found on the MGM backlot while assisting to set up the wardrobe auction of May 1970, one pair became a centrepiece of the auction. He later sold all but one of the other pairs, keeping for himself the size 5B pair, believed to have been worn by JG for static and closeup shots, which were in the best condition of the known pairs. He later sold them through Christie's East in 1981 for ,000.