Mary Badham

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Mary Badham (born October 7, 1952 in Birmingham , Alabama ) is an American actress .

Life

Mary Badham was born in Alabama in 1952 to a retired Army officer and an English-born actress and radio host. The nine-year-old had no professional acting training when she was selected from among two thousand young girls in 1962 to interpret the female lead in the Hollywood film of the same name of Harper Lee's award-winning novel Who Disrupts the Nightingale . In the drama of Robert Mulligan, she played alongside Gregory Peck and Robert Duvall, the lively Jean Louise Scout Finch, who, as the daughter of a white lawyer, was confronted with racism in the American southern states in the early 1930s . The film version of Who Annoyed the Nightingale was a hit with critics and audiences alike, and won three Oscars in 1963. On the other hand, ten-year-old Mary Badham, who at the time was the youngest actress ever nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category, was defeated by the six-year-old young actress Patty Duke ( Licht im Dunkel ). This record was only to be set in 1973 by her compatriot Tatum O'Neal ( Paper Moon ), who was exactly 37 days younger than Badham at ten years and 106 days at the time she was nominated in the same category.

Mary Badham was able to make her acting debut, which has been dubbed as impressive by Variety , with one-off guest appearances on the television series Dr. Don't tie in with Kildare and The Twilight Zone . In 1966 she appeared again with two feature films in American cinemas before she withdrew from the film business. In Sydney Pollack's romantic drama This Girl Is For All, she played the young and imaginative sister of titular heroine Natalie Wood and starred in William Castle's critically-torn thriller Let's Kill Uncle . Two years later, Badham auditioned unsuccessfully for the part of Mick in Robert Ellis Miller's drama The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), which was to serve as a career springboard for Sondra Locke .

After finishing her acting career, Mary Badham worked as a restorer and college entrance test coordinator . The sister of the film director John Badham stayed in contact with her fellow Who Disrupts the Nightingale actors Phillip Alford , Gregory Peck and Brock Peters and traveled the world to present Harper Lee's novel and share her experiences while making the film, most recently in September 2006 at the Rome International Film Festival . The married mother of two living near Richmond ( Virginia ) and made in 2005 after nearly forty years of abstinence canvas with the supporting role of Mrs. Nutbush in Cameron Watson's drama Our Very Own again as an actress attracted attention.

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Official Academy Awards Databas
  2. ↑ Larry Tubelle: To Kill a Mockingbird . In: Variety, December 12, 1962
  3. ↑ Locke, Sondra: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly. A Hollywood Journey . New York: Morrow, 1997. ISBN 0-688-15462-X (English)
  4. ↑ Murray, Steve: Reel Alternatives. Thought-provoking tales populate High's Iranian series . In: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , September 8, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Badham, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , Alabama