Was ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ actually filmed in Alabama? Harper Lee said it ‘looked so real’

Was ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ actually filmed in Alabama? Harper Lee said it ‘looked so real’

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” one of the most-read books in the world, was written by Monroeville, Ala., native Harper Lee. The fictional setting of the 1960 book was a small town called Maycomb, which Lee confirmed numerous times in her lifetime was based on Monroeville, now a quaint town with plenty of “Mockingbird”-themed sites for tourists.But the 1962 movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” was not filmed in Monroeville. Not any part of it was filmed anyw…