Mary Badham

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(From left to right) Phillip Alford, Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, and John Megna in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).

Estelle Evans as Calpurnia stands with hands on hips beside Phillip Alford as Jem Finch and Mary Badham as Scout Finch on a porch in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Mary Badham

American actress

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To Kill a Mockingbird
…six-year-old “Scout” Finch (played by Mary Badham) during the Great Depression in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. When her widowed father (Gregory Peck), a principled and respected attorney, defends a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman, Scout and her brother witness the horrors of racism. They…
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…six-year-old “Scout” Finch (played by Mary Badham) during the Great Depression in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. When her widowed father (Gregory Peck), a principled and respected attorney, defends a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman, Scout and her brother witness the horrors of racism. They…
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