Symbol copyright Getty Images Image caption A Couple Of pairs of ruby slippers have been made for the movie, together with those ones displayed in Beverly Hills in 2011
A PAIR of ruby slippers worn by way of Judy Garland In The Wizard of Oz. has been found 13 years after being stolen, in keeping with US authorities.
They were taken from a Minnesota museum in 2005, when anyone broke in thru a window late at evening.
Three others pairs of ruby slippers worn by means of Garland in the 1939 movie are recognized to exist.
An nameless donor as soon as introduced a $1m (£775,000) praise for the stolen pair’s whereabouts and the thief’s name.
However, the praise expired at the 10th anniversary of the robbery.
Image copyright Getty Photographs Image caption Judy Garland played the lead function of Dorothy Gale in the vintage musical 
How had been they stolen?
The Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Garland’s birthplace, were loaned the slippers from a collector named Michael Shaw.
The robbery used to be described as a simple destroy-and-snatch, with the glass show case destroyed and the slipper snatched.
Almost no clues were left at the back of, neither footprints nor fingerprints, and the surveillance digital camera used to be not running that night.
“I actually felt like i was hit within the abdomen while I got the call,” Mr Shaw advised Newsweek in 2015. “My knees buckled, and i went proper down on the flooring. I had taken care of those shoes for 35 years!”
Jon Miner, the museum’s co-founder, advised the mag he used to be additionally devastated. “I cried,” he stated. “i couldn’t believe this came about to us because it used to be the stupidest thing.”
The museum has kept the rostrum – labelled “Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers” – empty considering they disappeared.
A documentary in regards to the robbery – Who Stole The Ruby Slippers? – was released in 2015.
The history of the ruby slippers
The sneakers are lined in approximately 2,300 sequins, in step with the Hollywood Reporter In The Glorious Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum’s 1900 book on which the film is predicated – Dorothy wore silver shoes. However MGM Studios chose to turn them vivid red to turn off new Technicolor movie techniques In 2016, the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Museum of Natural History in Washington DC raised greater than $THREE HUNDRED,000 for the restoration of a couple they’d obtained In 2012, actor Leonardo DiCaprio used to be named as the lead benefactor in a group of movie fans who purchased one in all the pairs. it’s going to be displayed at the Academy Museum of Movies when it opens in La next 12 months The fourth recognized pair is owned via an individual collector, who purchased them from a Tennessee schoolteacher who had received them in a 1940 pageant Actress Debbie Reynolds was additionally once given a few ruby slippers from the film but these had been used for display checks and never worn by Garland. They bought for more than $500,000 at a 2011 public sale
