Love this Classic, the sequel Return to Peyton Place (where Rosemary Clooney sang added lyrics to theme) and later TV series. Growing up in a small town in the 1950s, so much rings true!
Beautifully made motion picture from start to finish. The state of Maine provided a great backdrop of scenery. Franz Waxman deserves credit for providing the interesting musical score. The movie and subsequent novel by Grace Metalious inspired a sequel film and television's first prime time soap opera which ran for five years. Thank you for showing the opening credits.
A movie and soundtrack continue to define a generation sixty two years after being released. The location filming in Maine, high quality acting and interesting and entertaining storyline make "Peyton Place" a major player in the long history of Hollywood productions. The music provides beautiful and appropriate accompaniment to a move that remains a classic to anyone knowledgeable of the movie making industry and one that was received with acclaim enough to make a TV series some years after the movie appeared in 1957.
The author of Peyton Place, Grace Metalious, died at age 39, an alcoholic, and $200,000 in debt from lavish living. She said she wished she had never found fame and fortune, because they ruined her life.
She also gave up the rights to The Book so when it was made into a Hit Movie she didn't get paid nor did she get paid when it was a Prime Time Soap Opera and various TV Movies. A 1979 version starred an fairly unknown actress named Linda Gray and look what happened to her. She played Sue Ellen On Dallas. John Beck was also on one of the Peyton Place TV Movies as Dorian, and he of course is best known as Mark Grayson on Dallas and he also did Flamingo Road with Morgan Fairchild who played Jenna Wade #1 on Dallas.
It's clever when the female narrator in the opening says that there was a fifth season of love and that only the wise and the lucky ones knew where to find it. The film is already involving its audience in the plot at that early point in the movie.
EXACTLY !!!, hard to imagine isn't it??, I always say that EVERYONE should see this movie at least once >>>for the Painfully Beautiful music and the New England scenery. I am from New England, I was 14 when this movie came out.
Also Todd Haynes did the "Same" thing with Far From Heaven. He had the 1950's down pat as well as in Carol it was so bonechilling. I am Afro Canadian and watching it was so surreal at how people's lives were back in the day.
The town seen from a hill top at the beginning of the credits is Camden Maine,where this was filmed. Other nearby towns are also seen. All exteriors were filmed in Camden, the interiors at 20th Century Fox Studios.
Just a slight correction: the two towns shown in the background are South Hope, Maine (right of the screen) and Rockport, Maine (left side of the screen) with "Grassy Pond" in the center. The farmer plowing, Fred Merrifield, was one of my Grandfather's closest friends. This field is on what was the Gillette Farm, the road is the Gillette Road, west side of "Ragged Mountain" west of Camden. My families wild blueberry farm (since 1893) are the white obscured buildings just above Fred's hat to the right while he is delivering his line about "Peyton Place" being 2 miles down the road. It is the same breathtaking view to this day.
What I meant to say was that the exteriors were all done in the Camden area. Thank you so much for the additional info about the locations. Did you know that Lana Turner never came East, all her scenes were done at Fox. Even the Rockport shot was done against a screen. As you know, almost the entire cast has passed away except Russ Tamblyn who is still acting!
I've always wondered if the views shown here were of New Hampshire where the story was set or of Maine where it was filmed. Such a beautiful place back then.
This film while very good is a totally sanitized version of the novel that it was based on thanks to Mr Breen and his asshole code office. Within 5 years films like Hud made the MPAA irrelevant
I remember seeing Old School Episodes on an NBC Affiliate in the 1980's. I had no idea of it's legacy. Then I got The Book, read it and then got classic Copies programmed to my Tablet through Amazon. Were it not for Jerry Wald encouraging a Young File Clerk named Rona Jaffe to write her own Bestseller "The Best Of Everything" may not have been written let alone be made into a Movie. Their opening sequences were so similar like in Robert Wise's productions of West Side Story and The Sound Of Music.
I have issues with the movie as a whole, but the credits and the music and first few minutes are just glorious (ditto for Return to Peyton Place). This and Jerry Wald's other 1950s and early 60s productions --- In Love and War, Return to Peyton Place, Wild in the Country --- may be a mix of greatness and sleaze, but they always show his passionate love and understanding of the new powers of the wide screen, of sound and color and camera movement and how these can come together to create emotion.
What's so sad was that after Peyton Place was released as a Book, the Author Grace Metalious was treated like a Pariah. She gave up the rights to the Book and when it became a Hit Movie and TV Series, she didn't get anything. I heard she died worse off after The Book then before.
Thanks for the info. I went by what I read in Vanity Fair Magazine. Also I heard the Maria Von Trapp also gave up the rights to her Book The Sound Of Music and her Family got nothing as well. I'm telling you these Chick Lit Writers Lives were just as dramatic as the Books they wrote.
laminage? I heard that Jaclyn Suzanne played it safe and negotiated for her to get an unlimited amount of control over the movie production of her book "Valley of the Dolls." In fact, I heard that she nearly drove the film crew for it over the edge, but, hey, novelists need to follow her example if they want their rights protected whenever their books are made into movies.
She sold the rights for $250,000 which was huge amount of money. Especially since this was a first novel. She didn't give up her rights, she sold her rights. Sadly Metalious became a pariah to her town and an alcoholic.
@@laminage Maria Von Trapp sold the rights to her story, not give the rights. She sold it for a really small amount of money because she really needed the money and sadly her husband was dead, maybe he could have helped her get a better deal. When the Broadway musical came out, however she was given a small amount of the profit like 1/2 of 1%. But that was really out of the kindness of the producers.
Enough to make a grown man cry.
So beautiful, another world;thank you!
Stunningly beautiful. Franz Waxman is truly one of my all-time favorite film scorers.
He's GENIUS!!, as lala wrote 3 years ago, it is "of impossible beauty!!", that says it all!!
Love this Classic, the sequel Return to Peyton Place (where Rosemary Clooney sang added lyrics to theme) and later TV series. Growing up in a small town in the 1950s, so much rings true!
This song represents nostalgia personified.
Exquisite orchestration of a beautiful theme.
Beautifully made motion picture from start to finish. The state of Maine provided a great backdrop of scenery. Franz Waxman deserves credit for providing the interesting musical score. The movie and subsequent novel by Grace Metalious inspired a sequel film and television's first prime time soap opera which ran for five years. Thank you for showing the opening credits.
A movie and soundtrack continue to define a generation sixty two years after being released. The location filming in Maine, high quality acting and interesting and entertaining storyline make "Peyton Place" a major player in the long history of Hollywood productions. The music provides beautiful and appropriate accompaniment to a move that remains a classic to anyone knowledgeable of the movie making industry and one that was received with acclaim enough to make a TV series some years after the movie appeared in 1957.
Love this oldies...are soo fascinating !
THAT IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIES. THEY DON'T MAKE 'EM LIKE THAT ANYMORE
+Alfred Wood Nine (9) Oscar nominations. But why was it not nominated for its Music Score???
It's almost the most beautiful theme song ever. Sadly, it's also basically a soap opera.
Hey Kuzn.. why is that a sad thing?
Funny...I just posted the same thing. They truly don’t and never will again.
Such a wonderful picture and cast! They truly will never make films like this anymore.
I loved This movie & the music Is superb
The author of Peyton Place, Grace Metalious, died at age 39, an alcoholic, and $200,000 in debt from lavish living. She said she wished she had never found fame and fortune, because they ruined her life.
She also gave up the rights to The Book so when it was made into a Hit Movie she didn't get paid nor did she get paid when it was a Prime Time Soap Opera and various TV Movies. A 1979 version starred an fairly unknown actress named Linda Gray and look what happened to her. She played Sue Ellen On Dallas. John Beck was also on one of the Peyton Place TV Movies as Dorian, and he of course is best known as Mark Grayson on Dallas and he also did Flamingo Road with Morgan Fairchild who played Jenna Wade #1 on Dallas.
It's clever when the female narrator in the opening says that there was a fifth season of love and that only the wise and the lucky ones knew where to find it. The film is already involving its audience in the plot at that early point in the movie.
theme song of impossible beauty
EXACTLY !!!, hard to imagine isn't it??, I always say that EVERYONE should see this movie at least once >>>for the Painfully Beautiful music and the New England scenery. I am from New England, I was 14 when this movie came out.
Also Todd Haynes did the "Same" thing with Far From Heaven. He had the 1950's down pat as well as in Carol it was so bonechilling. I am Afro Canadian and watching it was so surreal at how people's lives were back in the day.
Rest in peace Dorothy Malone
The town seen from a hill top at the beginning of the credits is Camden Maine,where this was filmed. Other nearby towns are also seen.
All exteriors were filmed in Camden, the interiors at 20th Century Fox Studios.
Just a slight correction: the two towns shown in the background are South Hope, Maine (right of the screen) and Rockport, Maine (left side of the screen) with "Grassy Pond" in the center. The farmer plowing, Fred Merrifield, was one of my Grandfather's closest friends. This field is on what was the Gillette Farm, the road is the Gillette Road, west side of "Ragged Mountain" west of Camden. My families wild blueberry farm (since 1893) are the white obscured buildings just above Fred's hat to the right while he is delivering his line about "Peyton Place" being 2 miles down the road. It is the same breathtaking view to this day.
What I meant to say was that the exteriors were all done in the Camden area. Thank you so much for the additional info about the locations. Did you know that Lana Turner never came East, all her scenes were done at Fox. Even the Rockport shot was done against a screen. As you know, almost the entire cast has passed away except Russ Tamblyn who is still acting!
Is the town/harbor at the very beginning behind the 'Peyton Place' title Camden?
I've been to Maine. I would have to say that it is one of the most beautiful states in the Union.
@@timpinkham624 Wonderful bit of history! Thank you for sharing it with us.
Lovely theme song.
Yes... that's why I'm here.
beautiful open in all aspects (including the W I D E CinemaScope aspect): music, background scenes and titles
Actors of the past pronounced such clear sharp english!
beautiful music(theme)
Theme by Franz Waxman.
This movie and a Summer Place inspired us to move to Maine.
such a classic
I've always wondered if the views shown here were of New Hampshire where the story was set or of Maine where it was filmed. Such a beautiful place back then.
All of New England is beautiful. I've been to Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Colors are everywhere you go in those states.
@@consumerwarrior1267 It was filmed in it's entirety in Camden, Maine.
Waxman - Just beautiful!
Loved the series! No cursing, obvious sex. I wish we could get back to the simplicity of life!
+terri sanguinetti Have you ever read the book?
Incest, nymphomania, abortion, frigidity - aah the good old days!
This film while very good is a totally sanitized version of the novel that it was based on thanks to Mr Breen and his asshole code office. Within 5 years films like Hud made the MPAA irrelevant
I'm from the South but there is something special about this Newspaper's New English town.
I remember seeing Old School Episodes on an NBC Affiliate in the 1980's. I had no idea of it's legacy. Then I got The Book, read it and then got classic Copies programmed to my Tablet through Amazon. Were it not for Jerry Wald encouraging a Young File Clerk named Rona Jaffe to write her own Bestseller "The Best Of Everything" may not have been written let alone be made into a Movie. Their opening sequences were so similar like in Robert Wise's productions of West Side Story and The Sound Of Music.
I have issues with the movie as a whole, but the credits and the music and first few minutes are just glorious (ditto for Return to Peyton Place). This and Jerry Wald's other 1950s and early 60s productions --- In Love and War, Return to Peyton Place, Wild in the Country --- may be a mix of greatness and sleaze, but they always show his passionate love and understanding of the new powers of the wide screen, of sound and color and camera movement and how these can come together to create emotion.
Believe "THEY" have ALL passed away, except Russ Tamblyn...
I sure hope the writer received the help she needed.
The harbor scene you see right after the "A Cinemascope Picture" screen definitely isn't Camden Harbor. Looks like Boothbay Harbor.
☆☆☆ a melhor
Who said it was?
This isnt a trailer!!
Franz Waxman
“My name is Allison McKenzie”
Well, I think I know where Dan Curtis got Victoria Winters from.
What's so sad was that after Peyton Place was released as a Book, the Author Grace Metalious was treated like a Pariah. She gave up the rights to the Book and when it became a Hit Movie and TV Series, she didn't get anything. I heard she died worse off after The Book then before.
laminage She couldn't get anything off the t.v. show because she died a few months before the t.v. show premiered.
Thanks for the info. I went by what I read in Vanity Fair Magazine. Also I heard the Maria Von Trapp also gave up the rights to her Book The Sound Of Music and her Family got nothing as well. I'm telling you these Chick Lit Writers Lives were just as dramatic as the Books they wrote.
laminage? I heard that Jaclyn Suzanne played it safe and negotiated for her to get an unlimited amount of control over the movie production of her book "Valley of the Dolls." In fact, I heard that she nearly drove the film crew for it over the edge, but, hey, novelists need to follow her example if they want their rights protected whenever their books are made into movies.
She sold the rights for $250,000 which was huge amount of money. Especially since this was a first novel. She didn't give up her rights, she sold her rights. Sadly Metalious became a pariah to her town and an alcoholic.
@@laminage Maria Von Trapp sold the rights to her story, not give the rights. She sold it for a really small amount of money because she really needed the money and sadly her husband was dead, maybe he could have helped her get a better deal. When the Broadway musical came out, however she was given a small amount of the profit like 1/2 of 1%. But that was really out of the kindness of the producers.
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A most beautiful song and lovely photography. What a waste. The movie is unworthy.
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