Peyton Place
film by Robson [1957]
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- discussed in biography
- In Mark Robson: Films of the 1950s
Robson rebounded with Peyton Place (1957), an adaptation of Grace Metalious’s best-selling novel about the scandals in a small New England town. Most of the work’s sensationalistic elements—notably sadomasochism, incest, and abortion—were toned down or eliminated from the film version. Nevertheless, the novel’s many fans flocked to the…
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- In Mark Robson: Films of the 1950s
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- Kennedy
- In Arthur Kennedy
Victory (1951), Trial (1955), Peyton Place (1957), and Some Came Running (1959).
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- In Arthur Kennedy
- Turner
- In Lana Turner
…the Beautiful (1952); Mark Robson’s Peyton Place (1957), for which she received an Academy Award nomination; Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life (1959); and Madame X (1966). Thereafter she occasionally appeared in minor film melodramas and such television soap operas as Falcon Crest.
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- In Lana Turner