The iconic dress worn by Judy Garland in Victor Fleming’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’ (1939), which was missing for decades before being found in an American Catholic university last year, will go up for auction on May 24. from Bonham to Los Angeles. The blue checkered white dress, estimated at between $ 800,000 and $ 1.2 million, is one of two existing dresses that retain the white blouse and only one of four blue and white dresses made for the film set. This Hollywood costume is paired with a specific scene from the legendary film, which is when Dorothy confronts the Wicked Witch of the West in the Witch’s Castle.The dress was entrusted to the auction house from the Washington-based Catholic University of America. It was originally donated to the former head of the University’s Dramaturgy Department, the Reverend Gilbert Hartke, by Mercedes McCambridge, a Hollywood actress. After disappearing in the 1980s, the costume was recently rediscovered and the university decided to put it up for sale. The proceeds will benefit the Dramaturgy Department itself, as donor McCambridge had originally desired. Another blouse dress from the Wizard of Oz set was also sold by Bonhams in 2015 for over $ 1.5 million. . Bonhams also sold the lion costume worn by actor Bert Lahr for over 3 million in 2014.