Posted on 12/21/2008 7:00:02 AM PST by Borges
Edited on 12/21/2008 3:40:53 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Robert Mulligan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for directing the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Saturday at his home in Lyme. He was 83.
Mulligan had heart disease, his nephew Robert Rosenthal.
The director began working in live television in New York in the early 1950s and won an Emmy Award for the TV movie "The Moon and Sixpence" in 1960. His first film, "Fear Strikes Out," was released in 1957 and told the story of mentally ill baseball player Jimmy Piersall, played by Anthony Perkins. Mulligan directed 19 more films, including "Summer of '42," "The Other" and "Same Time, Next Year" before capping his career in 1991 with "Man in the Moon," featuring actress Reese Witherspoon in her movie debut.
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I saw it a long time ago. But yeah that sort of thing wasn’t common at at that time at all. And of course there’s also 1947’s ‘Pinky’ about a light skinned black woman passing as white. But the less said about that the better.
Rumor has it Truman Capote really wrote most of To Kill A Mockingbird because he was so grateful to Harper Lee for being kind to him as a child. The character of Dill was based on Capote.
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