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16/03/2006
Grace Metalious biopic to star Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock is to star in a biopic of American author Grace
Metalious, best known as the author of controversial 1956 novel Peyton
Place.
Bullock will also co-produce the film with Carol Baum.
Naomi Foner, whose credits include Running on Empty and Bee Season, is
writing the screenplay.
"Grace Metalious was a housewife with three kids running around with
runny noses, living in a town (Gilmanton, New Hampshire) where she
didn't belong, didn't fit in," Baum told The Associated Press.
"Meanwhile, unbeknownst to anybody, she was writing the sexiest novel in
history, in her kitchen."
Peyton Place, a novel of sex and scandal in a small New England town,
was based partly on Gilmanton.
Although it was banned in several cities, Peyton Place became one of the
best-selling novels in history and led to a popular movie starring Lana
Turner and Hope Lange.
Metalious never recovered from her sudden notoriety; her marriage fell
apart, her children were harassed and the author herself received
threatening calls and letters.
She became a heavy drinker and died of cirrhosis in 1964, at 39.
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