Grace Metalious

Grace Metalious

writer

Grace Metalious was born on Sep 08, 1924 in USA. Grace Metalious's big-screen debut came with Peyton Place directed by Mark Robson in 1957. Grace Metalious is known for Peyton Place: The Next Generation directed by Larry Elikann, Christopher Connelly stars as Norman Harrington and James Douglas as Steven Cord. The upcoming new movie Grace Metalious plays is Peyton Place: The Next Generation which will be released on May 13, 1985.

Grace Metalious, the author of one of the most notorious and best-selling novels of the 1950s, was born Marie Grace de Repentigny on September 8, 1924, in Manchester, New Hampshire. Populated by multiple ethnic groups, Grace's mother downplayed their French Canadian heritage due to the discrimination directed towards the group by "native" Yankees and the Irish, who were at the top of the social structure of the New England mill town. Anxious for Grace to better herself, her mother insisted upon their living in neighborhoods in which there weren't many French Canadians, one of the last groups to emigrate to Manchester and thus, located far down on the social totem pole. From her mother, Grace learned first-hand about dissembling and hiding secrets, the revelation of which would lie at the heart of her first and most famous novel, "Peyton Place."

  • Birthday

    Sep 08, 1924
  • Place of Birth

    Manchester, New Hampshire, USA