Decades before Dynasty and Melrose Place, Peyton Place began the grand tradition of the prime time soap opera. The series, which aired 514 episodes from 1964 to 1969, turned Mia Farrow and Ryan O'Neal ...

Efforts to stop the 1956 novel backfired spectacularly. But Grace Metalious, the book’s New Hampshire author, paid a terrible price. It seems so familiar: Books are being banned; basic freedoms are ...

Dorothy Malone, who won an Oscar for her sultry role in the 1956 film "Written on the Wind" and starred in the television soap opera "Peyton Place," died Friday in Dallas, The New York Times reported.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1956, Grace Metalious shook up the literary world with Peyton Place, her bold novel about women's lives in a fictional New ...