'Gone with the Wind' dress fetches $137,000 at auction

LOS ANGELES: The gray and black dress worn by Vivien Leigh when she played Scarlett O' Hara in the 1939 movie classic "Gone with the Wind" has been sold at auction for $137,000.

According to Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills, California the embroidered dress went for more than double its starting price of $60,000 on Saturday.

"Gone with the Wind" is a 1936 Civil War-era epic novel by Margaret Mitchell that was then made into the multiple Academy Awards winning movie.

O´Hara´s dress was part of an extensive collection of memorabilia from the film gathered by James Tumblin, a former makeup artist from Universal studios.

In all, about 150 items were up for auction. The straw hat with green ribbons worn by O´Hara on the day of a picnic at the start of the film fetched $52,500 and one of her blouses went for $32,500.

Among the other items on sale were a gray suit worn by the character Rhett Butler, played by Clark Gable, which fetched $55,000.