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Peyton Place was filmed in a Maine town, surrounded by stretches of seacoast and forest and country roads. The streets are lined with little white houses, and the shack by the railroad tracks is rather picturesque. To fit these settings, Hollywood has turned Mrs. Metalious' honestly dirty best-seller into...
Peyton Place (Jerry Wald-20th Century-Fox) cuts some of the sex and violence from Grace Metalious' hugely profitable peeping tome (300,000 hardbound, 3,000,000 paperback copies sold) about low jinks in old New Hampshire. The novel's small-town citizens were guilty of murder, suicide...
Nevertheless, the film is superbly convincing in its panoramas and crowd shots and in some fine scenes of young, nonviolent love. For the first time in memory, a New England town is filmed with neither the whales-and-ale quaintness of a picture postcard nor the brooding gloom of an...
Massachusetts High School Teacher George Metalious, husband of No. 1 best-selling Novelist Grace (Peyton Place) Metalious, 32, father of her three children, told newshounds that he and Grace have split. He was mum on his reasons. though Grace had once explained that while she was grinding out her libido...
A Manhattan sightseer, New Hampshire's earthy Novelist Grace Metalious, 32, whose sex-gorged Peyton Place (TIME, Sept. 24) has stood No. 1 on the nation's bestseller lists for almost two months, counterattacked censors and all who would ban her barnyard portrayal of a rampageous U.S. hamlet...