To Kill A Mockingbird classic Blu-ray Jan 31, 2012 Review

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Originally Posted by BillyJack

Count me in! I'm still gonna keep my Legacy Edition because of the awesome packaging and extras (including 11 mini poster replicas), some of which may not be ported to the blu. Gregory Peck was such a class act, I miss him. Plus this was Robert Duvall's debut film, he still acting today and lives in my state of Virginia! I also believe Harper Lee is still alive as well.

Harper Lee is living in Alabama.

Lee said of the 1962 Academy Award-winning screenplay adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird by Horton Foote: "I think it is one of the best translations of a book to film ever made". She also became a friend of Gregory Peck, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the father of the novel's narrator, Scout. She remains close to the actor's family. Peck's grandson, Harper Peck Voll, is named after her.

I was surprised to learn in 2009, when I heard a NPR show with the author (Kerry Madden) that wrote a book about Harper Lee, that Lee, who lived in Monroeville, Alabama, was a neighbor and friend of Truman Capote, who was staying with relatives there. And that Harper Lee, wrote the character Dill being based on Capote.

Capote was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was the son of 17-year-old Lillie Mae Faulk and salesman Archulus Persons. His parents divorced when he was four, and he was sent to Monroeville, Alabama, where, for the following four to five years, he was raised by his mother's relatives.

Capote and his Monroeville neighbor, Harper Lee, remained lifelong friends. He based the character of Idabel in Other Voices, Other Rooms on her, and was in turn the inspiration for the character Dill Harris in Lee's 1960 bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Capote once acknowledged this: "Mr. and Mrs. Lee, Harper Lee's mother and father, lived very near. Harper Lee was my best friend. Did you ever read her book, To Kill a Mockingbird? I'm a character in that book, which takes place in the same small town in Alabama where we lived. Her father was a lawyer, and she and I used to go to trials all the time as children. We went to the trials instead of going to the movies."
Later, Harper Lee was Capote's crucial research partner for In Cold Blood.

(From Wiki)