Return to Peyton Place (1961) on Netflix
Allison MacKenzie writes a tell-all novel drawn from her Peyton Place neighbors' secrets, and the town turns against her. Her best friend Selena Cross still faces their judgment.
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Plot summary
A decade after the events of the earlier story, Allison MacKenzie, a young writer in the town of Peyton Place, learns that publisher Lewis Jackman wants to bring out her novel. Her mother Constance agrees only reluctantly when Allison travels to New York to meet him about the book. At home, Allison's best friend Selena Cross still draws criticism from neighbors over her past. Roberta Carter, who disapproves of her son Ted's closeness to Selena, is visited by Ted when he comes back from Boston with his new wife, Raffaella, a former Italian fashion model. Roberta looks down on the young woman and asks Selena to help drive the couple apart. Selena refuses and leaves angry; on the road afterward, ski instructor Nils Larsen comes to her aid.
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- Jennifer Howardas Diane Jackman (uncredited)
- Jack Carras Mr. Johnson (uncredited)
- George Boyceas Townsman at Meeting (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Return to Peyton Place (1961)
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- Fox wanted Diane Varsi to reprise her role as Allison MacKenzie, but in March 1959 she walked out on Hollywood, only two years into a seven-year studio contract, calling acting destructive to her.
- Fox paid $500,000 for the film rights to Grace Metalious's sequel before she had written a word of the novel, a deal that also gave the studio the rights to her second novel, The Tight White Collar.
- Gene Tierney and Lee Remick were cast in the starring roles in late 1960, but both actresses withdrew in November 1960 because they were pregnant.
- Joan Crawford pulled out of playing Mrs. Roberta Carter because she did not want to work over the Christmas holiday away from her family; Bette Davis was approached to replace her before Mary Astor took the part.
SPOILER
Some of Mary Astor's scenes as Mrs. Roberta Carter were cut before release, including her character burning down her house to kill Ted and his wife; the trailer shows the fire, the finished film does not.- Return to Peyton Place was the last Fox film shot on the studio's "permanent garden set", which had been built in 1935 and was sold off in 1961 for real estate development.
