Peyton Place TV Series
Peyton Place TV Series
Peyton Place TV Series#1
Posted: 6/25/14 at 7:44pm
How did Mia Farrow get a credit in the opening theme of Peyton Place when this was one of her first roles? Ryan O'Neal and Barbara Parkins must have been ticked off because they already had several credits to their name.
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Peyton Place TV Series#2
Posted: 6/25/14 at 8:06pmShe had a good agent. The Producers wanted her and her agent negotiated where in the credits her name was to appear. Quite simple. Might also had to do with money, perhaps they weren't offering her much but offered placement in the credits as a negotiating point. My agent did the same thing for me on Showtime's Twister Puppet Theatre a couple decades ago.
Peyton Place TV Series#2
Posted: 6/25/14 at 8:16pmMia Farrow was playing Alison Mackenzie which was a lead role. Barbara Parkins was originally contracted as a supporting role and her character was going to be killed off halfway into the first season...she quickly became a fan favorite and she was kept and stayed with the series and when Farrow left became even more prominent and the shows leading lady.
Peyton Place TV Series#3
Posted: 6/25/14 at 8:18pmMaybe Frank Sinatra had the Mafia "lean" on the producers. Peyton Place started in 1964 and they were married in 1966. So maybe it was Sinatra's way of getting into Mia's good graces.
Peyton Place TV Series#4
Posted: 6/25/14 at 8:20pm
"Mia Farrow was playing Alison Mackenzie which was a lead role."
That's what I thought, but then again, the show is a soap opera and the storylines shift between the families. So is Alison really a lead role?
Peyton Place TV Series#5
Posted: 6/25/14 at 8:24pmAnd for those of you who know the musical "Shenandoah" I keep thinking that the song "Papa's Gonna Make It Alright" sounds like a ripoff of the Peyton Place theme.
Peyton Place TV Series#6
Posted: 6/25/14 at 10:20pm
Yeah, she was THE juvenile lead from the start. The others less so in the very early episodes. The early episodes are very much seen through her eyes and scenes of her often frame them.
Love the series--it's amazing how well filmed it was for something that eventually was cranked out three times a week. I have the two Shout DVD box sets, but they lost the license but I found online for 60 dollars someone selling 50 DVDs of the rest of the series, and the three TV movie sequels (including the pilot for a Dallas style 80s update) in extremely good quality for what they are--I've made it to the colour episodes but had to take a break (I hear the show loses quality around then anyway--and Mia of course is long gone due to Frankie, etc.)
Peyton Place TV Series#7
Posted: 6/25/14 at 10:43pmI had read where they were going to kill of Barbara Parkins. But I don't understand that because that leaves Mia as the only juvenile female. Who would be Mia's rival? It seems like it would have been unbalanced.
Peyton Place TV Series#8
Posted: 6/26/14 at 12:29amAt what stage was that? Barbara for the first year or so was the antagonist, but she very much was redeemed and became a heroine--so much so that they were going to spin her off into her own show The Girl from Peyton Place (I think around the time, to avoid scandal due to the whole baby issue, she moved to New York and was working on her own.)
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