The Camden Public Library is participating in the Peyton Place revival by offering a Peyton Place Retrospective on Thursday evening, July 14, at 7:00 pm. The newly refurbished full-length film will be shown in all its renewed glory at the Strand Theatre in Rockland on July 16. In anticipation of the “new” release, the Library will offer a selection of images and scenes from the movie as filmed in Camden for the 1957 release. Some of the scenes are quite amusing, such as the “secret” place Allison is so proud of which turns out to be the top of Mt. Battie, and the bus to New York which comes down the street from Hope and heads off to Bangor. Other scenes are challenging in trying to place where they were taken and how they were edited to make Allison skip merrily from Chestnut Street to Belfast and back.
Library staff will offer some remarks about the tremendous popularity and impact that the book first had, followed by the movie and its sequels. We are hoping that anyone familiar with the movie will join us with stories about the filming. We know there are several characters still in town who played extras in making the movie in 1956! The movie was nominated for a record-breaking 9 Academy Awards – record-breaking because it was not awarded a single one.
(These publicity stills are in B&W, although the film is in color.)
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