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Peyton Place is a 1957 American drama film starring Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Diane Varsi, Arthur Kennedy, Russ Tamblyn, and Terry Moore.Directed by Mark Robson, it follows the residents of a small fictional New England mill town in the years surrounding World War II, where scandal, homicide, suicide, incest, and moral hypocrisy belie its tranquil façade.
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.
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.
Realizing their town should have a fictional name, they looked through an atlas and found "Payton" (a town in Texas). They combined this with Place and changed the "a" to an "e". Thus Peyton Place was born, prompting her comment, "Wonderful—that's it, George. Peyton Place. Peyton Place, New Hampshire. Peyton Place, New England. Peyton Place, USA.
Return to Peyton Place is an American daytime serial that aired on NBC from April 3, 1972 to January 4, 1974. [1] The series was a spin-off of the prime time drama series Peyton Place , and not an adaptation of the 1959 novel by Grace Metalious or the 1961 film of the same name .
Rachel Welles is a fictional character on the television drama Peyton Place. She was portrayed by actress Leigh Taylor-Young, between 1966 and 1967. Character history
Barbara Rush, the Golden Globe-winning actor who starred in the sci-fi horror "It Came From Outer Space," has died. She was 97. Claudia Cowan, Rush's daughter and a journalist at Fox News Channel ...
Peyton Place, a fictional New England town that is the setting for the 1956 novel; Peyton Place, a 1957 film, adapted from the novel; Return to Peyton Place, a 1959 follow-up novel also by Grace Metalious; Return to Peyton Place, the 1961 sequel to the 1957 film; Peyton Place, an ABC prime time soap opera from 1964 to 1969, also adapted from ...