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    Grace Metalious (September 8, 1924 – February 25, 1964) was an American author known for her novel Peyton Place, one of the best selling works in publishing...
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  • novel by Grace Metalious, a sequel to her best-selling 1956 novel Peyton Place. After the phenomenal success of her first novel, Metalious hastily penned...
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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...
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    Rodney "Rod" Harrington is a fictional character in the 1956 Grace Metalious novel Peyton Place, the 1957 film adaptation, and the 1960s television adaptation...
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  • June 2, 1969. Loosely based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious, the series was preceded by a 1957 film adaptation. A total of 514...
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    incest, and moral hypocrisy belie its tranquil façade. It is based on Grace Metalious's bestselling 1956 novel of the same name. Released in December 1957...
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  • Grace Metalious (1924–1964), American author of Peyton Place Grace Mildmay (c. 1552–1620), English noblewoman, diarist and medical practitioner Grace...
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  • Peyton Place may refer to: Peyton Place (novel), a 1956 novel by Grace Metalious Peyton Place, a fictional New England town that is the setting for the...
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    Standish) is a fictional character in the 1956 novel Peyton Place by Grace Metalious. In the subsequent film adaptation, she was played by Lana Turner;...
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    was rumored that the popular novel Peyton Place, written by resident Grace Metalious, was based on the town. Gilmanton was incorporated in 1727. First known...
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  • 2023 The Toronto Star Archived 2012-11-05 at the Wayback Machine on Grace Metalious: "It sold 100,000 copies in its first month and went on to sell another...
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  • or even just one huge seller that has entered the cultural lexicon (Grace Metalious and Peyton Place, for example). A leading figure—especially award-winning...
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    book Mansfield reads in the bathtub scene is Peyton Place (1956) by Grace Metalious, which became a feature film and a popular TV series. The buxom characters...
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    Story Constance MacKenzie, character in the 1956 novel Peyton Place by Grace Metalious Constance Miller, a character in The Object of My Affection Constance...
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  • William Brinkley The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor Peyton Place by Grace Metalious Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis Eloise by Kay Thompson Andersonville...
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  • and music; biographies of the American women writers Kate Chopin and Grace Metalious; a cultural history of menstruation; edited collections of Chopin's...
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  • drama series Peyton Place, and not an adaptation of the 1959 novel by Grace Metalious or the 1961 film of the same name. While the show continued storylines...
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    MacKenzie in 20th Century Fox's Peyton Place, a film adaptation of the Grace Metalious novel of the same name. The film was a major box office success, and...
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    Anderson is a fictional character in the novel Peyton Place, written by Grace Metalious, as well as the subsequent films and TV series based on the novel....
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    Rodney Harrington in Peyton Place (1957), based on the best-selling Grace Metalious 1956 novel of the same name. This was followed by a supporting part...
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  • comedian, actor, writer, television producer, and television host Grace Metalious (1924–1964), author Walter Mondale (1928–2021), politician, 42nd vice...
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    February 11, 2019. Toth, Emily (1981). Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metalious. New York: Doubleday Publishing. ISBN 0-385-15950-1. Turner, John Frayn...
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  • that fell through. Rees became the lover of Peyton Place author Grace Metalious. Metalious, who had cirrhosis from heavy drinking, changed her will hours...
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  • Ronald Alexander is based on the 1959 novel Return to Peyton Place by Grace Metalious. The film was distributed by 20th Century Fox and is a sequel to their...
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  • resident of Manchester's "petit Canada" was Grace Metalious, author of the best-selling novel Peyton Place. Metalious denied her French Canadian heritage and...
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  • Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1887) 1964 – Grace Metalious, American author (b. 1924) 1970 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter...
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  • social shame that that would bring are key plot drivers in the murder. Grace Metalious, Peyton Place (1956 novel): The main plot follows the lives of three...
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    she was a professor at Colby-Sawyer College. She is an expert on Grace Metalious. Hirsh-Dickinson is the first person to write a full-length study,...
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  • not Forgiven Grace Metalious". People. Vol. XVI, no. 13. Archived from the original on February 14, 2018. "Great Links for Grace Metalious". Franco-American...
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  • family. Although some believe that the serial was patterned after Grace Metalious’ scandalous novel Peyton Place (and subsequent television adaptation)...
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