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TIL that Steven Spielberg bought and donated to the Academy Awards two Oscars that were being auctioned privately. He paid $578,000 for Bette Davis’ Best Actress Oscar for the 1938 movie “Jezebel,” and $607,500 for Clark Gable’s Best Actor Oscar for 1934’s “It Happened One Night.”

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