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'10 commandments' go to auction

Associated Press
5:08 PM EDT, May 14, 2008

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, Calif., home at the age of 84.

The auction runs July 31-Aug. 1.

------ On the Net: Profiles in History: http://www.profilesinhistory.com/ AP-ES-05-14-08 1355EDT

Related topic galleries: Film Festivals, Death and Dying, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Beverly Hills, Charlton Heston, Movies, Auction Service

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