TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Trivia and Other Fun Stuff

Gregory Peck was reunited with actress Collin Wilcox, who played the slattern Mayella Violet Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird, when they both appeared in HBO's The Portrait (1992). In fond memory of the role, Duvall named a succession of his dogs Boo Radley.

To Kill a Mockingbird was scripted by celebrated Southern writer Horton Foote because Harper Lee was busy at work on another novel.

Producer Alan J. Pakula directed many fine films such as Klute (1971), All the President's Men (1976), Sophie's Choice (1982), and Presumed Innocent (1990).

The uncredited actress who serves as the narrating voice of the adult Scout is Kim Stanley. An intense Method actress, Stanley won critical acclaim for performances on Broadway and the London stage before turning to film work. While she has only made a handful of films, she earned an Oscar® nomination for Best Actress for Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964). Shortly after the release of this film, Stanley suffered a nervous breakdown and temporarily retired from film acting. In the early 1980s, Stanley briefly returned to films, winning her second Oscar® nomination in 1982 for her supporting role as Frances Farmer's mother in Frances (1982).

Famous Quotes from TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Atticus Finch: You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... 'til you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Atticus Finch: There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

Jem: There goes the meanest man that ever took a breath of life. Dill Harris: Why is he the meanest man? Jem: Well, for one thing, he has a boy named Boo that he keeps chained to a bed in the house over yonder. Boo only comes out at night when you're asleep and it's pitch-dark. When you wake up at night, you can hear him. Once I heard him scratchin' on our screen door, but he was gone by the time Atticus got there. Dill Harris: I wonder what he does in there? I wonder what he looks like? Jem: Well, judgin' from his tracks, he's about six and a half feet tall. He eats raw squirrels and all the cats he can catch. There's a long, jagged scar that runs all the way across his face. His teeth are yella and rotten. His eyes are popped. And he drools most of the time.

Atticus Finch: I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house. And that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted, if I could hit 'em, but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. Well, I reckon because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncrib, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us.

Jem: Atticus says cheating a black man is ten times worse than cheating a white.

Compiled by Scott McGee