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  Camden Area History Center : Peyton Place Archives
In 1957, 20th Century Fox chose Camden as the location for the filming of Peyton Place, the movie version of the controversial novel by Grace Metalious that portrayed life in a small New England town.
The actual filming of Peyton Place started in June, 1957 with hundreds of extras from the area hired for $10 a day.
The world premiere took place on December 11, 1957 at the Camden Theater on Mechanic St. Bette Davis and her husband Gary Merrill attended the premiere and over $5000 was raised for the Camden Hospital Building Fund.
www.camdenhistorycenter.org /peyton_place_archives.htm   (264 words)

  
  North by Northwestern » Admitting Peyton’s place
I think we can all agree Tom and Peyton are the two best of the current era (unless you’re a member of the Sexy Rexy Grossman forum, in which case you’re not only crazy, but you may or may or not be a drunk).
Peyton’s been the best QB in the league for the last five years or so.
Peyton was No. 3 behind Montana and Elway; Brady had dropped out of the top-5.
www.northbynorthwestern.com /2007/02/1948/admitting-peytons-place   (852 words)

  
  Peyton Place (novel) at AllExperts
Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by Grace Metalious.
Peyton Place is a fictional composite of the nearby towns of Laconia, New Hampshire (where Grace did most of her drinking), Belmont, Gilmanton and other nearby villages.
When John Michael Hayes, the screenwriter for the film adaptation of Peyton Place, asked her if the novel was her autobiography, Metalious asked him to repeat the question and then spilled her drink on him.
en.allexperts.com /e/p/pe/peyton_place_(novel).htm   (1164 words)

  
 Peyton's Place
Peyton's Place acquired canoes in the early 1970's and began service as a canoe livery for
Peyton's Place was the first canoe livery operating on the Illinois River, and has continued the family-owned and operated
Peyton's Place will convince you that it is THE place for your outings on the beautiful and scenic Illinois
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 Pasco: No guessing at Peyton's place
Each day, the Johnny Peyton recruiting watch sways a little to the left, or back to the right, and the Pasco receiver likely won't come to a resting point until he signs a national letter of intent - somewhere - next month.
Peyton made an official visit to South Florida over the weekend but did not make a commitment.
But another Peyton recruiter left for a job in Ohio: UM offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski stepped down Monday to become tight ends coach of the Cleveland Browns.
www.sptimes.com /2004/01/13/Pasco/No_guessing_at_Peyton.shtml   (695 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Author's struggle with fame was her own "Peyton Place"
Grace Metalious was a housewife in 1956 when "Peyton Place" scandalized the nation — and eventually ruined her life.
"Peyton Place" centers on the fortunes of three women: Allison McKenzie, a teenager and aspiring writer; her friend, Selena Cross, the "bad girl" from across the tracks; and Allison's mother, Constance McKenzie, strapped like an old corset into her life as a single parent until unfastened by the town's handsome school principal, Tomas Makris.
In "Peyton Place," Metalious observed that there were two kinds of people, those who lived behind "tedious, expensive shells" and those who did not.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002857797_peytonplace13.html?syndication=rss   (1194 words)

  
 UPNE - Return to Peyton Place: Grace Metalious
In 1956 Grace Metalious published Peyton Place, the novel that unbuttoned the straitlaced New England of the popular imagination, transformed the publishing industry, topped the bestseller lists for more than a year, and made its young author one of the most talked-about people in America.
Peyton Place, the small, seemingly respectable New England town, is revealed as a vividly realistic cauldron of secrets and scandal.
Peyton Place and its sequel, Return to Peyton Place, the books that readers used to hide under their mattresses, are now recognized by scholars as the Silent Generation’s Perfect Storm and predecessors to the women’s liberation movement.
www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/1-55553-669-7.html   (305 words)

  
 Return to Peyton Place   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Metalious' ``Peyton Place'' is roiling with hypocrisy, spite and distrust.
It is a place where men can do little wrong, but women must be vigilant about preserving their reputations.
``Peyton Place'' gave Metalious the money she wanted, but because she was inexperienced in business, she only got $75,000 for the movie rights.
www.jsonline.com /enter/gen/ap/jul99/ap-return-to-peyto070799.asp   (1737 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Peyton Place: DVD: Lana Turner,Lee Philips,Lloyd Nolan,Arthur Kennedy,Russ Tamblyn,Terry Moore,Hope ...
Peyton Place is the sensitive and poignant story of coming of age in a small New England village whose peaceful facade hides love and passion, scandal and hypocrisy.
Peyton Place was filmed in beautiful Camden, Maine and I remember the time when it was filmed there..I was a kid growing up in Portland, Maine.
PEYTON PLACE was a rather lurid best-seller that took the country by storm back in the 1950s by tearing the lid off a New England town and exposing the corruption and hypocrisy of...
www.amazon.com /Peyton-Place-Lana-Turner/dp/B0000DJZ8Q   (0 words)

  
 Peyton Place
Peyton Place is something a little different from most of the other examples of popular fiction I'm looking at in this series.
The difference between a closet skeleton and a scandal, in a small town, is that the former is examined behind barns by small groups who converse over it in whispers, while the latter is looked upon by everyone, on the main street, and discussed in shouts from rooftops.
It may be that all popular fiction succeeds by playing on chords of memory, returning each of us to a Peyton Place in our past where someone, maybe our first love, is waiting for us to come home, and where dreams and nightmares still come true.
www.goodreports.net /reviews/peytonplace.htm   (1793 words)

  
 mickey spillane
La Peyton Place del titolo è una cittadina inesistente, ma immaginata, con dovizia di particolari, nel New England settentrionale, al confine col Vermont; e, proprio in quanto inesistente, può servire da paradigma di una qualsiasi piccola comunità urbana della provincia statunitense.
Il romanzo è una sorta di cronaca dei principali fatti accaduti a Peyton Place lungo l'arco di sei anni all'epoca della II guerra mondiale.
C'è allora da chiedersi a cosa fosse dovuto l'impatto scandaloso che I peccati di Peyton Place ebbe sul pubblico degli anni Cinquanta.
www.genovalibri.it /rubi_ferli/cinq_metalious.htm   (0 words)

  
 Peyton Place: Fox Studio Cassics (1957)
Peyton Place may have passed for steamy and scandalous 50 years ago, and those elements may have been provocative enough to make it entertaining in that era.
Peyton Place appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
The audio for Peyton Place was flawed but ambitious, and it seemed satisfying enough to earn a “B”.
dvdmg.com /peytonplace.shtml   (1720 words)

  
 Peyton Place the Book
Grace Metalious’ novel “Peyton Place” was published in 1956 at a time when Leave it to Beaver ruled and was considered the norm of family morals and values.
Peyton Place was being played out in the very town it was written in.
After two movies based on her novels (she wrote four total) and a nighttime soap which aired several times a week in the 1960’s, Peyton Place is still being talked about today.
www.peytonplacebook.com   (0 words)

  
 Peyton Place - Nostalgia Central
The set grew from a few houses around a square to include shops, a factory, a hospital, a fire station and a wharf and the plots grew so complex that new viewers could no longer follow them and the change to thrice weekly episodes ultimately proved a mistake and the show was cancelled.
Peyton Place owed its existence to Britain's Coronation Street.
The main characters reappeared in 1972 in Return To Peyton Place (NBC), a daytime soap opera with an entirely different cast, but audiences were unimpressed and it ended after only 50 episodes.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/drama/peyton.htm   (623 words)

  
 Return to Peyton Place at AllExperts
Hoping to cash in on the phenomenal success of her first novel, the blockbuster hit Peyton Place (1956), Metalious penned a sequel centering on the life and loves of author Allison Mackenzie, who ironically follows in the footsteps of her mother by having an affair with a married man.
While Return to Peyton Place had many of the same soap opera elements of the original, it lacked its narrative style, and read like a hack novel that had been written quickly and without much thought in order to make a fast buck.
A daytime drama titled Return to Peyton Place aired on NBC from April 3, 1972 to January 4, 1974, but this series was based on the original book and not its sequel.
en.allexperts.com /e/r/re/return_to_peyton_place.htm   (299 words)

  
 Peyton Place | Video Review | Entertainment Weekly
The received wisdom about the two original movies adapted from the astonishingly popular trash fiction of Grace Metalious is that Peyton Place is a first-class Hollywood soaper, classily directed and acted (it received numerous Oscar nominations, including five for its cast), while the sequel is merely inept and vulgar.
Inspired by the treatment accorded Metalious in her hometown as the result of Peyton Place (her husband was fired as school principal, which is what happens to Allison's stepfather in the novel and movie), it was also an attempt to ennoble herself as the Thomas Wolfe of her generation.
Still, the main reason to see Return to Peyton Place is an absolutely stunning performance by the great Mary Astor, as the town's most malignant old scold, Mrs.
www.ew.com /ew/article/0,,314041,00.html   (627 words)

  
 Peyton Place - General Comments in P in in Jump The Shark
To bad it could not make a come back in the 80's (Remember Peyton Place '85?)Loved that Barbara Parkins (MEOW!!) great as Betty Anderson, should have won her an Emmy award for her role (Lee Grant was the only one to win, though not the only one nominated).
For me, Peyton Place had charm and suspense during the days when Rodney Harrington and Allison Mackenzie were in love.
Peyton Place jumped the shark in the episode in which Allison Mackenzie (Mia Farrow) discovers the identity of her father, Elliott Carson (Tim O'Connor).
www.jumptheshark.com /forum/peyton-place/1567   (1273 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Peyton Place: Books: Grace Metalious,Ardis Cameron
Peyton Place is, on its own terms, both a perfectly decent popular novel and an honest one.
I first read "Peyton Place" when it was still considered hot stuff and just re-read the book to see how it had held up.
Peyton Place the town is a major character in the book, and everyone lives in fear of it, because it demands the appearance of perfection from all its citizens and thus condones hypocrisy and condemns human frailty.
www.amazon.com /Peyton-Place-Grace-Metalious/dp/1555534007   (0 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Peyton Place: Video: Mark Robson,Lana Turner,Lee Philips,Lloyd Nolan,Arthur Kennedy,Russ Tamblyn,Terry ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The novel "Peyton Place", by Grace Metalious has over time become "infamous", for its frank depiction of sex in all its raw forms under the outwardly respectable facade of life in a prosperous New England Town.
Obviously by today's movie standards "Peyton Place", seems very tame and at times almost quaint, however it is an intelligently written and honestly acted melodrama that holds your attention for its lengthy two and a half hour running time.
Turner plays Constance Mackenzie, a dress shop owner in the beautiful town of Peyton Place and she is one of the many residents who beneath their outwardly respectable facade is hiding a dark secret from her past.
www.amazon.ca /Peyton-Place-Mark-Robson/dp/6302000661   (3086 words)

  
 Peyton Place
Peyton Place, a prime-time program based on the Grace Metalious novel, was an experiment for American television in both content and scheduling when it appeared on ABC, at that time still the third-ranked U.S. network.
This prototype of what came to be known in the 1980s as the prime-time soap opera initially met with great success: a month after Peyton Place premiered, ABC rose in the Nielsens to number one for the first time.
An unmarried woman, Constance MacKenzie, and her daughter Allison were placed at the dramatic center of the story.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/P/htmlP/peytonplace/peytonplace.htm   (774 words)

  
 Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present)
Not until resistance results in death does Peyton Place become invested in the girl’s fate, albeit to see Selena punished for killing a man who “provided for the child just as if she was his own” (335).
And the fact that he had not been Selena’s own father would hurt her in Peyton Place.” Rationalizing his decision to abandon Selena, who would now be a tremendous liability to his future legal career, Ted reiterates this last point ad nauseam: “She wasn’t even his own, Peyton Place would say.
Regardless of the myriad challenges that Peyton Place posed to the literary and sexual mores of the fifties, the notion of a father raping and impregnating his young daughter presented far too severe an assault against the wholesome cultural narrative of domesticity.
www.americanpopularculture.com /journal/articles/fall_2006/anderson.htm   (4607 words)

  
 Peyton Place TV Show - Peyton Place Television Show - TV.com
Peyton Place was America's first truly successful primetime serial.
Like the former series, Peyton Place was remarkably well-written and superbly acted by a cast of veteran actors and talented newcomers, several of whom were rewarded with Emmy nominations for their work.
Additionally, every single episode of Peyton Place was an original telecast, giving it the most consecutive, original episodes of any television program in US primetime history.
www.tv.com /peyton-place/show/6169/summary.html&full_summary=1   (960 words)

  
 Peyton Place Restaurant :: Main Page
Have you recently had dinner at Peyton Place or are you a Peyton Place fanatic?
Peyton Place Restaurant will soon celebrate our 14th anniversary.
He is trying to keep me technologically on track, With the instalation of our blog I will begin telling some of these stories as well as keeping you informed of our menu, and the variety of services that Peyton Place has to offer.
www.peytonplacerestaurant.com   (0 words)

  
 Peyton Place
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious In 1956, a woman from middle class Manchester, New Hampshire wrote a book that shocked the nation.
To read Peyton Place was to read it in secret and were sometimes discussed only among the closest of friends.
Unfortunately, Grace Metalious died a few months before the show aired at the age of 39 from a “chronic liver disease.” Peyton Place is such a significant factor in literary history because it crossed a barrier from conservative to raunchy, bad books.
www.freeessays.cc /db/10/bgt346.shtml   (1008 words)

  
 Peyton Place (1957)
PEYTON PLACE, the 1957 version of Grace Metalious' sensational, sex-obsessed best-seller, is a superb movie, brilliant entertainment, and one of the best big-cast movies of all time.
One seldom thinks of Lana Turner as a "great actress" perhaps because so many people have been too blinded by her beauty to acknowledge the talent, but the talent is definitely there.
As the world knows, PEYTON PLACE spawned a TV series which survived several years and a round of B-picture soap opera follow-ups dealing with life in small towns, including a sequel, 1961's RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE, which had a good cast but not the brilliant technique nor passion of its predecessor.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0050839   (0 words)

  
 Bright Lights Film Journal | Peyton Place
Peyton Place the book was sanitized for the big screen and released in 1957 in velvety rich De Luxe Color and widescreen CinemaScope.
Peyton Place was a box-office bonanza, but there are pleasures in watching it today that were unimagined in 1957.
Peyton Place is set in the 1940s, before and after the war, yet it is a quintessential 1950s product.
www.brightlightsfilm.com /44/peyton.htm   (1043 words)

  
 Return To Peyton Place: Fox Studio Cassics (1961)
Peyton Place residents are up in arms after Allison MacKenzie (Carol Lynley) writes a scandalous novel whose characters and events closely mirror those in her hometown.
Return to Peyton Place appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
Unfortunately, Return to Peyton Place presented a Dolby Stereo 2.0 soundtrack that was substantially inferior to the first film’s Dolby Digital 4.0 mix.
www.dvdmg.com /returntopeytonplace.shtml   (1915 words)

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