Gregory Peck’s To Kill a Mockingbird Script Sells for $84,000

Gregory Peck's personalized leather-bound To Kill a Mockingbird script has sold for $84,375 at Heritage Auctions' Property from The Estate of Veronique and Gregory Peck sale.

As expected, the gilt-stamped, photo-filled, Horton Foote-penned adaptation of Harper Lee's novel was among the most sought-after lots. Another highlight was a 35th anniversary copy of To Kill a Mockingbird inscribed by Lee to Veronique and Gregory, who won the Best Oscar as Alabama attorney Atticus Finch in 1963. She wrote: "To Gregory and Veronique: You have a unique place in my heart. Harper." It sold for $35,000.

"Harper Lee once said the role of Atticus Finch gave Gregory Peck the chance to play himself, because he was that man," Gregory and Veronique's son Anthony said before the auction.

The nearly sold-out auction, featuring 250 lots, realized a total of $1,279,367 and featured numerous scripts spanning Peck's acclaimed film career, awards, landmark costumes, works of fine and decorative art, and myriad mementos the couple accrued during lives.

The auction featured personalized, customized book-bound scripts for each of Peck's films, including:

* Roman Holiday with 16 production stills and portraits ($25,000)

* Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, inscribed by producer David O. Selznick, who wrote inside, "For Greg — with gratitude for his superb work in this, our first association. May we have many, many more together! D.O 1945." ($17,500)

* Gentleman's Agreement, in which Peck was Oscar-nominated as a reporter exposing anti-Semitism in America, sold for $15,000

* Captain Horatio Hornblower, signed and inscribed by director Raoul Walsh ($8,750)

* The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit ($10,000)

* Moby Dick ($15,000)

* Cape Fear ($17,500)

Additionally, the octagonal poker table the Sinatras gifted to the Pecks, who hosted the likes of Frank Sinatra, Angie Dickinson, and Jack Lemmon sold for $21,250, while Peck's 1960 passport made $21,875.