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- Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by the American author Grace Metalious.
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Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by the American author Grace Metalious. Set in New England in the time periods before and after World War II, the novel tells the story of three women who are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy town.
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- Grace Metalious
Peyton Place: Created by Paul Monash, Irna Phillips. With Ed Nelson, Barbara Parkins, Warner Anderson, Dick Tufeld. People married and divorced, loved and lost. Murder, illicit passion, insanity, and secrets were the staples of Peyton Place.
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Grace Metalious. Peyton Place became shorthand for secret scandals, mostly involving sex. Its author, Grace Metalious, was a New Hampshire schoolteacher’s wife whose own scandals were anything but secret. She was a mother of three and, by all accounts, a lousy housewife who drank, swore, wore baggy jeans and cheated on her husband.
Peyton Place is an American prime-time soap opera that aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964, to June 2, 1969. [1] Loosely based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious , the series was preceded by a 1957 film adaptation .
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Peyton Place (TV Series 1964–1969) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Mar 12, 2006 · “Peyton Place” centers on the fortunes of three women: Allison McKenzie, a teenager and aspiring writer; her friend, Selena Cross, the dark-haired “bad girl” from across the tracks; and ...
Mar 4, 2014 · The book is scarcely feminist — its wisest speeches are given to Dr. Swain and Tomas Makris, the new school principal — but its real hero is Selena Cross, a girl who kills the stepfather who raped...
