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Nigel Bruce Costume from The Blue Bird

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Nigel Bruce Costume from The Blue Bird
Red velvet jacket with gold piping and red satin pants made for Nigel Bruce in the Shirley Temple Technicolor fantasy The Blue Bird (1940). The film found Bruce as Mr. Luxury, a resident of the Land of Luxury who encounters Temple and her fantastic assembly of fairy tale creatures including a humanized cat and dog. The film, Fox's response to the success of The Wizard of Oz, was nominated for two Academy Awards and was adapted from a 1908 play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Bruce is most famous for his role as Dr. Watson in several Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone playing the world's most famous detective. The red satin pants are screen worn and include a United Costumers label with Bruce's name handwritten on it. The jacket appears to be a prototype made for Bruce but not screen worn, including an Associated Costumers stamp on the inner lining and a vintage hangtag with Bruce's name handwritten on it.