Robert De Niro's $5m film collection to go on display

Hollywood actor Robert De Niro's 5-million dollar film collection is set to go on display at the University of Texas in Austin.

Hollywood actor Robert De Niro's 5-million dollar film collection is set to go on display at the University of Texas in Austin.

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The film collection consists of items including scripts, rare photographs, movie props, costumes, publicity and research documents documenting Robert's career from 1960 to 2005, reports

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The De Niro collection includes nearly 8,500 items and also includes the leopard-print boxing robe the actor wore in Raging Bull and the coats he donned as the creature in Frankenstein.

The collection has been appraised at more than 5 million dollars and it took university museum curators more than 2 years to process, organise and catalogue.

"The Ransom Center does an incredible job. They have a rich history of knowing how to do these sorts of presentations,"

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quoted Robert De Niro's publicist Stan Rosenfeld, as saying.