Tuesday, April 14, 2009

One-time movie icon Mary Badham

Art restorer Mary Badham was, in the 1962 movie To Kill a Mockingbird, "Scout" (Jean Louise Finch) when she was 10.

The little girl from Alabama had never worked in movies prior to that time but did a fine job and became a lifelong friend of star Gregory Peck, who played her father, lawyer Atticus Finch in this excellent, powerful film that had an important social message regarding race relations.

Badham had a few minor roles thereafter but soon left acting.

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