Peyton place

When Grace Metalious's debut novel about the dark underside of a small, respectable New England town was published in 1956, it quickly soared to the top of the bestseller lists. A landmark in twentieth-century American popular culture, Peyton Place spawned a successful feature film and a long-running television series--the first prime-time soap opera.Contemporary readers of Peyton Place will be captivated by its vivid characters, earthy prose, and shocking incidents. Through her riveting…

Fifty years ago, the novel Peyton Place shocked America with its tale of secrets, sex, and hypocrisy in a small New Hampshire town, becoming one of the best-selling dirty books ever, a hit movie, and TV's first prime-time soap. It brought fame and misfortune to Grace Metalious, the bawdy, rebellious housewife who wrote it, and outraged the citizens of Gilmanton—"the real Peyton Place." With a Metalious biopic in production, the author charts the tumultuous celebrity, emotional flameout, and…

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Peyton Place

Peyton Place 1968 TV series lot of 10 original 7x9 inch TV photos Malone O'Neal. Before Dallas and Dynasty there was Peyton Place gripping the nation in the 1960's and this collection I am offering has ten different 7x9 inch TV photos showing cast favorites Ryan O'Neal, Dorothy Malone, Glynn Turman, Jeanne Buckley, Leigh Taylor Young, Barbara Parkins, Mia Farrow, Wilfred Hyde White, Christopher Connelly and Patricia Morrow. Some of these (not all) have original ABC snipes attached. This is a…

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.