The latest Broadway incarnation of To Kill A Mockingbird is touring the country, and now the cast includes a familiar face from the old black-and-white movie.
“Isn’t this stunning?” marveled 69-year-old Mary Badham, pausing in the lobby of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as the show wrapped up its first leg. (As it happens, John F. Kennedy was president in 1962, when Badham was nominated for an Oscar at 10 for playing Scout, the daughter of Atticus Finch, a white small-town Southern lawyer who defends a Black man accused of rape.)
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This spring, Badham joined the national tour playing a minor character who’s the exact opposite of Scout Finch. Mrs. Henry Dubose is a racist, morphine-addicted neighbor who’s rumored to keep a Confederate pistol under her shawl and mercilessly torments the Finch youngsters.
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Article URL : https://www.npr.org/2022/07/19/1110908381/scout-from-the-to-kill-a-mockingbird-film-now-plays-the-racist-neighbor-onstage