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Miss Maude "Maudie" Atkinson, a widow of about 40, lives across the road from the Finches, and she is one of the few adults that Jem and Scout hold in high regard and respect. She had known them all her life, being the daughter of Dr. Frank Buford, their neighbouring landowner to the Finch ancestral home, Finch's Landing. She enjoys baking and ...
By balancing the masculine influences of Atticus and Jem with the feminine influences of Calpurnia and Miss Maudie, one scholar writes, "Lee gradually demonstrates that Scout is becoming a feminist in the South, for with the use of first-person narration, she indicates that Scout/Jean Louise still maintains the ambivalence about being a ...
The film's trailer. To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American coming-of-age legal drama crime film directed by Robert Mulligan starring Gregory Peck and Mary Badham, with Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, James Anderson, and Brock Peters in supporting roles.
Scout reports, "Miss Maudie baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight", [1] "shinny" being a slang term for moonshine, and "tight" suggesting feeling the effects of the alcohol. Also in To Kill a Mockingbird, Miss Maudie bakes a Lane cake for Mr. Avery, who was severely injured in an attempt to put out a fire in her home. “Soon ...
She played Maudie Atkinson in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) as well as Callie Hacker in Walking Tall (1973). The following year, in 1974, she appeared in the television film A Case of Rape , playing a ruthless defense attorney who brutally cross-examines a rape victim (played by Elizabeth Montgomery ) and wins an acquittal for the man who ...
Massachusetts theater-goers saw Rupp onstage in 2008 playing Olympia in Georges Feydeau's 1907 farce A Flea in Her Ear at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, and as Miss Maudie in To Kill a Mockingbird at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. [26] In 2012, Rupp portrayed Ruth in She Wants Me, an independent romantic comedy.
Atkinson is an English-language surname. The name is derived from a patronymic form of the Middle English Atkin . The personal name Atkin is one of many pet forms of the name Adam .
Rebecca Atkinson: 2002 Carol Mills: Collette Cooper: 2002 Patricia Hillman: Annabelle Apsion: 2002 Goran Milanovic: Matt Zarb 2002 Bobbi Lewis: Naomi Ryan: 2000–2002 Sheila Cunningham Rebecca Lamb 2002 Eve Elliott: Melanie Kilburn: 2000–2002 Maurice Gregory Keith Drinkel: 2001–2002 Molly Hardcastle: Jacqueline Kingston 2000–2002 Sam ...