Heston Film’s ‘Ten Commandments’ To Be Sold
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Thou shalt find the Ten Commandments up for bid this summer.
A pair of faux granite tablets that Charlton Heston cradled in the 1956 biblical epic “The Ten Commandments” is expected to fetch as much as $60,000, a publicist for the auction house Profiles in History, Marc Kruskol, said. It is the fourth set of tablets that remains from the film that featured Heston as Moses.
The five-piece costume Heston wore in 1959’s “Ben-Hur” — the film that won him a Best Actor Oscar — is also among the 1,000-plus pieces of Hollywood memorabilia the auction house is selling this summer. The central piece is the dark green kaftan worn by Heston’s Judah Ben-Hur in the scene where he hears Jesus give a sermon.
Heston died April 5 at his Beverly Hills, Calif., home at the age of 84.
The auction runs between July 31 and August 1.
