Allison MacKenzie
| Allison MacKenzie | |||
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| Peyton Place character | |||
| Portrayed by | Mia Farrow | ||
| First appearance | September 15, 1964 (#1) | ||
| Last appearance | August 29, 1966 (#263) | ||
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| Residence | Unknown | ||
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| Parents |
Constance MacKenzie (mother) Elliot Carson (father) |
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Allison MacKenzie is a fictional character and one of the protagonists in the novel Peyton Place, its sequel Return to Peyton Place, the subsequent film adaptations of both, and the primetime television series and daytime soap opera they inspired.
In the film Peyton Place, she was portrayed by Diane Varsi; in the movie sequel, Return to Peyton Place, she was played by actress Carol Lynley; in the 1960s television serial Peyton Place, she was played by Mia Farrow; and in the 1974 daytime serial Return to Peyton Place, she was played by actresses Katherine Glass and Pamela Susan Shoop.
In the TV series she appeared from the first episode to the 263rd episode, between 1964 and 1966.
In the original novel, Allison was the illegitimate daughter of Constance MacKenzie, the owner of a clothing store in Peyton Place, a small community in New Hampshire, and an imported fabric store owner also named Allison MacKenzie (in the movie, her father was named Angus, and in the television series, he was a New York City businessman named James).
Three years after she was born, her father died. Constance and her mother, Elizabeth Standish, deliberately changed the year of birth on her birth certificate to make Allison seem a year younger than she really was. This led to quite a lot of friction between mother and daughter. Allison was sensitive and dreaming, unlike her practical and often distant mother. The friction between the two would escalate as Allison grew up.
Her life's dream was to be a writer, something Constance had never understood. She also wanted her daughter to remain chaste, which caused Allison to rebel. When she was almost sixteen years old, her mother and a gossipy neighbor, Evelyn Page, who was the mother of Allison's friend, Norman Page, thought that the two had sex. In truth, they hadn't, they had gone on an innocent picnic; but Constance and Evelyn forced them to wrongly confess to something they didn't even do; and both were punished for it. (In the movie, it was spiteful Marion Partridge who had wrongly seen Allison and Norman swimming. She thought they were nude, they weren't; it was Rodney Harrington and Betty Anderson who were swimming in the nude, but it was Marion who spread the gossip.)
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