Ten Commandments on auction
2008-05-15 14:07
New York - 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, said Marc Kruskol, a publicist for the auction Profiles in History.
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 is selling this summer.
The central piece is the dark green kaftan worn by Heston's Judah Ben-Hur in the scene when he hears Jesus give a sermon.
Heston died April 5 at his Beverly Hills, California, home at the age of 84.
The auction runs July 31 to August 1.
- AP