area resident often travels to Mockingbird revivals. She remained close to Peck until his death a few years ago. Actress Kim Stanley provided the voice of the adult Scout, who narrates the tale with ironic, bemused detachment.īadham earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination in her film debut yet largely retired from screen acting after only two more roles. She’s the rambunctious young tomboy through whose eyes and words the story unfolds. screening and an appearance by Mary Badham, the then-child actress who played Scout. 14 at the Joslyn Art Museum with a 7 p.m. Omaha impresario and film historian Bruce Crawford will celebrate Mockingbird on Friday, Nov. Peck’s understated performance forever fixed the Mount Rushmoresque actor as the epitome of high character and strong conviction in movie fans’ minds. ![]() Atticus was based in part on Lee’s own father, an attorney and newspaper editor. Atticus is a widower with two precocious children - Scout and Jem. won the Academy Award as Best Actor for his starring turn as idealistic small town Southern lawyer Atticus Finch. Gregory Peck, with whom Lee maintained a friendship. Harper Lee’s best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel became an award-winning film acclaimed for how faithfully and lovingly it brought her work to the screen. If you buy that conventional wisdom than an exception is the 1962 movie masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird. Great movies are rarely made from great books. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Movie for the Ages from Book for All Time However, I spoke to Duvall for an entirely different project, and I never brought up Mockingbird with him, although I wish I did. Around this same time I also had the opportunity to interview Robert Duvall, who so memorably plays Boo Radley. At the end of my article’s posting, you’ll find a Q & A I did with her. And I know I am hardly alone in its effect.įor the article I got the chance to interview Mary Badham, who plays Scout in the film. I am sure I will be as carried away by it now as I still I am by the film, which I have seen in its entirety a few dozen times, never tiring of it, always moved by it, and whenever I find it playing on TV I cannot help but watch awhile. ![]() I really should get a copy of the book, sit down with it, and indulge in that precisely drawn world of Lee’s. ![]() ![]() Owing to my quite foggy memory of childhood things, I must admit that I cannot be entirely certain I have read Lee’s novel, but then again it was already standard fare in schools and so my unreliable recollection that I did read it in high school is probably accurate. That transition from one medium to another is often not a happy or satisfying one. The book to film adaptation is arguably the best screen treatment of a great novel in cinema history. The film is fast creeping up on its own 50th anniversary. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first printing of the masterpiece novel by Harper Lee. It was originally published in the City Weekly. Has there ever been a more truthful evocation of childhood and the South? When Bruce Crawford organized a revival screening of the film a couple years ago I leapt at the chance to write about it and the following article is the result. Like a lot of people, To Kill a Mockingbird is one one of my favorite books and movies. Screenshot of To Kill a Mockingbird(an American movie issued in 1962) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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