/internal/media/dispatcher/73895/fullMary Badham Oral History11/12/2014Duration: 56 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2014.001.01360Videotaped oral history interview with Mary Badham. A ten-year-old native of Alabama, Badham portrayed "Scout" Finch in the Academy Award-winning film To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). She continues to lecture around the world on the film's messages of tolerance and compassion.
Interview conducted at [location] on November 12, 2014 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is [x hour and x minutes] long.
The video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories655980E-100E-1043268Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Mary Badham. A ten-year-old native of Alabama, Badham portrayed "Scout" Finch in the Academy Award-winning film To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). She has since lectured around the world about the film's messages of tolerance and compassion.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 12, 2014 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-six minutes long.Oral historiesLiteratureFilmsCivil rightsAlabamaChildhood Recollections (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Popular Culture (OHC)Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)To Kill a Mockingbird was released by Universal Pictures on December 25, 1962. The film ultimately won three Academy Awards out of a total of eight nominations. In addition to the film winning Best Screenplay and Best Art Direction, Gregory Peck won his first and only Oscar for Best Actor after having been previously nominated in the category four times. Mary Badham was nominated for Best Supporting Actress (the youngest actress ever nominated in the category) alongside Shirley Knight for Sweet Bird of Youth; Angela Lansbury for The Manchurian Candidate, Thelma Ritter for Birdman of Alcatraz and Patty Duke, who won for her portrayal of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. - Stephen Fagin, Curator