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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. ==Book and film version== 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.) After Allison heatedly told her mother that she had never been so humiliated in all her life, Constance slapped her viciously and screamed at the top of her lungs that she was a bastard. When she discovered the truth about her birth, Allison was devastated. Later on, her best friend, Selena Cross's mother, Nellie, had committed suicide in her bedroom closet, due to discovering that Selena had been impregnated by her despicable stepfather, Lucas. It was Allison who had discovered Nellie's dead body and screamed in terror. It took her high school principal, Tomas Makris (later renamed Michael Rossi), who had been dating Constance, to help Allison through this dark time in her life; along with Dr. Matthew Swain, the town's leading physician. The double blow of Allison's discovering the truth about her birth as well as Nellie's suicide caused her to be hospitalized. Allison's friendship with Selena was another sore point with Constance, but she eventually saw something good in her, and offered her a job at her store. Besides Selena, she had a friendship with Kathy Ellsworth, the daughter of a mill worker and a nurse. Eventually, the rift between mother and daughter had grown so bad that Allison left Peyton Place, and moved to New York City. She became a writer for a magazine, and became rather successful. While in New York, she roomed with budding actress Stephanie Wallace. Allison returned to her hometown after Selena went on trial for Lucas's murder. She ended up being acquitted, but was tormented by the vicious gossip of Peyton Place. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Allison MacKenzie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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