They were the Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes of early 1900s Hollywood. Now you can own one of more than 700 pieces of fine art, furnishings and jewelry that graced the home, dubbed Pickfair, owned by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.

This amazing two-day auction, conducted by Julien’s Auctions, and broadcast live on Auction Network (auctionnetwork.com) will be held at the Beverly Hilton, Saturday, Nov. 22 and Sunday, Nov. 23, starting at 10am/8c both days.

Pickford was known as “America’s Sweetheart” during Hollywood’s Golden Age of silent films. Dinners there were legendary with guests including Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Some of the storied and exotic items from Pickfair up for bid include rare artworks such as two oil-on-canvas still life paintings by Paul de Longpre and Philip Mercier.

If you can’t make it to Los Angeles for this event, you can get a front-row seat on the Auction Network. Be sure to register now for this event. It’s free, and easy to Watch, Bid, and Win on auction Network!

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From singers (including Kylie, Mariah, Jamelia, and Girls Aloud) to actresses (Thandie Newton, Rennee Zellweger), supermodels (Heidi Klum, Naomi Campbell) to personalities (June Sarpong, Paris Hilton, Peaches Geldof), all have donated designer dresses (PPQ, Gucci, FrenchFrost, the list goes on). The list reads like a ‘who’s who’ of today’s celebrity and fashion spheres, and there is something to appeal to everyone. And of course, the final dress, designed by Willow, was donated from the star of the movie herself, Katherine Heigl.

The auction launches at 7pm today on www.ebay.co.uk/27dresses; all proceeds will go to the Lavender Trust, the Breast Cancer Care division for young female cancer-sufferers in their twenties and thirties. To launch the event, a private catwalk event took place at the swanky Sketch in London – and CQ was there to catch it all on film! Here’s an exclusive first look of all the dresses on the catwalk…

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