A hot pink confection worn by Audrey Hepburn in the classic film Breakfast at Tiffany's has sold for nearly $200,000 US — more than six times the pre-sale estimate.

An unnamed European buyer picked up the pink silk cocktail dress, worn by Hepburn's Holly Golightly character, for $192,000 US (including Christie's commission) at a sale of film and entertainment memorabilia on Wednesday.

Audrey Hepburn wore this pink silk cocktail dress in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's.
(Christie's/Associated Press)

"It captured people's imagination," Helen Hall, Christie's head of entertainment memorabilia, said about the rhinestone-studded dress.

Auction house officials in New York had estimated the garment to sell for up to $30,000 US, though at one of its London sales last year, the black column Givenchy dress most often associated with the film sold for more than $932,000 US. The proceeds from the sale of that dress helped build a school south of Calcutta.

Other notable items that crossed the block Wednesday included lots related to screen siren Marilyn Monroe, including a script from her unfinished, final film Something's Got to Give — which includes her notes scrawled in the margins — and a program from the Madison Square Garden birthday celebration where she sang to former U.S. president John F. Kennedy.

The script sold for $19,200 US, while the program fetched $66,000 US.

The auction also saw myriad costumes from classic films, autographed celebrity photos and a binder full of Laurel and Hardy gags offered for sale.

Overall, Christie's sold $1.2 million US worth of memorabilia.

With files from the Associated Press