Constance MacKenzie (nee Standish) was a fictional character in the 1956 novel Peyton Place by Grace Metalious. In the subsequent film adaptation, she was played by Lana Turner; in the sequel Return to Peyton Place, by Eleanor Parker; in the primetime television series, by Dorothy Malone (and briefly by Lola Albright); and in daytime soap opera Return to Peyton Place, by Bettye Ackerman.
Constance Standish was born and bred in the small New Hamps...
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Constance MacKenzie (nee Standish) was a fictional character in the 1956 novel Peyton Place by Grace Metalious. In the subsequent film adaptation, she was played by Lana Turner; in the sequel Return to Peyton Place, by Eleanor Parker; in the primetime television series, by Dorothy Malone (and briefly by Lola Albright); and in daytime soap opera Return to Peyton Place, by Bettye Ackerman.
Constance Standish was born and bred in the small New Hampshire community of Peyton Place; living with her widowed mother, Elizabeth Standish. Like most people in that community, she was repressed. She met, acquired a job with and eventually fell in love with a man named Allison MacKenzie, who ran an exotic fabric shop in New York; (in the movie, his name was Angus).
They had an extramarital affair, (he was married and had two children and a wife in Scarsdale, New York) and from that affair, her daughter, Allison MacKenzie, his namesake, was born. (Allison, according to the book, was a year older than...
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