Gregory Peck News

There will again be a pause in my blog as I go on another unpaid furlough next week.

In 2003, the American Film Institute ranked Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th Century.

The monochrome world of Hitchcock's Spellbound has been revisited in a new artistic medium - layers of brown parcel tape stuck on to a 4ft-high sheet of clear plastic through which light is shone.

For more than a month, valley readers participating in The Big Read have been discussing, examining, and experiencing in various forms "To Kill a Mockingbird." In the process, Harper Lee's classic 1960 story has inspired conversation and reflections on racism and justice, childhood and innocence, tolerance and community, and the virtues and flaws ...

Some single parents love a great movie marathon fright night, as if some of our nightmare scenarios have not provided enough adrenalized fear.

The second world war supreme allied commander was a fascinating character. This 1977 biopic signally fails to live up to his reputation The future's so bright a Gregory Peck in MacArthur.

Gregory Peck, left, portrays Atticus Finch and Brock Peters portrays Tom Robinson in the 1962 Universal film release "To Kill A Mockingbird." The film, directed by Robert Mulligan, will be shown today at 10 a.m. at the Temple Theatre, 2320 Eighth St., for students in grades 9-12, and again for the general public at 7 p.m. Tonight's admission is $5 ...

Rosa Lee Merz has taken the concept of "One Book, One Community" to heart. She's read portions of the classic novel chosen for the program - Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" - all over Stillwater, carrying the book with her as she went about daily tasks.

But you wouldn't mistake her for Gregory Peck. Or would you? The actress, best known for her role as Mayella Ewell, the horrid, white trash fabulist whose bogus rape accusation against a black man forms the crux of the movie To Kill a Mockingbird , died this month at age 74.

Bronte's gothic tale of moors madness gets the William Wyler treatment in this classic movie version starring Merle Oberon as Cathy and Laurence Olivier as Heathcliffe.

A commercial and critical hit in its day, 1945a s Spellbound has seen its standing slip in the ensuing decades, as it's never mentioned on any list of Alfred Hitchcock's best works.

Dir. Elia Kazan . Gregory Peck poses as a Jew to do a magazine piece on anti-Semitism and finds there's quite a bit of it out there in Kazan's screen version of Laura Hobson 's novel.

Every Southern town has an Atticus Finch, or needs one. Like the lawyer Gregory Peck played in "To Kill a Mockingbird," he's the first to stand when someone enters the room, man or woman.

WE live in an age where romance is sold by the metre: just another commodity for wedding planners, hotels, resorts, musicians, perfumeries, florists, frock designers, shoe shops and purveyors of Valentine's Day ephemera.

Classic movie actors Bing Crosby, Robert DeNiro, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and Gregory Peck are united by a common role in a series of films that will be shown by St.

With no prior acting experience, Mary Badham won the role of Gregory Peck's tomboy daughter Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird" over 2000 other applicants.

Actors Gregory Peck, front left, and Brock Peters, front right, star in the film adaptation of Harper Leea s To Kill a Mockingbird.

Highlands County is loaded with residents who share famous names with famous people; just check the telephone directory.

First, I must confess that the title of this article is inspired, as you may already have guessed, by nothing less than Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." But if you think that this inspiration is restricted only to the title of the novel, you are wrong.

Let's go to Rome, at least from the comfort of home. 1. Roman Holiday 1953 Romantic Comedy William Wyler, director.