Peyton Place | Adaptations
Metalious sold all of the Peyton Place rights to Jerry Wald, a producer at Twentieth Century-Fox. In the deal Wald acquired movie and television rights, even rights to the name "Peyton Place," which allowed Wald to control all of the subsequent Peyton Place properties. Metalious never received a dime, over the original purchase agreement, of the millions earned by the movies and television syndication.
Because of its subject matter and the sensational publicity it had received, the novel was a natural for screen presentation. In 1957 Mark Robson directed a fairly decent...
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