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| | name = Allison MacKenzie | |||
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| | first = September 15, 1964 (#1) | |||
| | last = August 29, 1966 (#263) | |||
| | cause = Left town | |||
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| | episode = 1 to 263 | |||
| | nickname = Alice in Wonderland | |||
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| '''Allison MacKenzie''' is a fictional character and one of the protagonists in the novel '']'', its sequel '']'', the subsequent film adaptations of both, and the primetime television series and daytime ] they inspired. | |||
| In the film '']'', she was portrayed by ]; in the movie sequel, '']'', she was played by ]; in the 1960s television serial '']'', she was played by ]; and in the 1972-74 daytime serial '']'', she was played by ] 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 ] daughter of ],<ref>{{Cite book|title = Lolita in Peyton Place: Highbrow, Middlebrow, and Lowbrow Novels of the 1950s|last = Wood|first = Ruth Pirsig|publisher = Garland Publishing, Inc.|year = 1995|isbn = 0815320612|location = New York|pages = 3–4}}</ref> the owner of a clothing store in Peyton Place, a small community in ], 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 ] businessman named James). | |||
| Three years after she was born, her father died. Constance and her grandmother, Elizabeth Standish, deliberately changed the year of birth on her birth certificate to make Allison seem a year younger than she really was.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|url = http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/fall_2006/anderson.htm|title = Toxic Togetherness in a Postwar 'Potboiler': Grace Metalious's Peyton Place|last = Anderson|first = Stacey Stanfield|date = 2006|journal = Americana|access-date = 3 October 2015}}</ref> 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. Allison's mother and a gossipy neighbor, Evelyn Page, the mother of Allison's friend, Norman Page, thought that their children had had sex. This was untrue; Allison and Norman had merely gone on an innocent picnic. But Constance and Evelyn forced their children to confess to something they didn't do, and both were punished for it.<ref name=":1" /> (In the movie, Marion Partridge had mistakenly thought she saw Allison and Norman swimming in the nude. The couple she actually saw was Rodney Harrington and Betty Anderson, but it was Marion who spread the gossip about Allison and Norman.) | |||
| After Allison heatedly told her mother that she had never been so humiliated, Constance slapped her and screamed at the top of her lungs, calling her a bastard. When Allison discovered the truth about her birth, she was devastated. | |||
| Later, her best friend ]'s mother, Nellie, committed suicide in her bedroom closet, after discovering that her husband had impregnated Selena, his stepdaughter.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Perfectly Average: The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America|last = Creadick|first = Anna G.|publisher = University of Massachusetts Press|year = 2010|isbn = 9781558498051|pages = 132}}</ref> Allison discovered Nellie's dead body and screamed in terror. Her high school principal, Tomas Makris (later renamed ]), who had been dating Constance, helped Allison through this dark time. Allison also received assistance from ], the town's leading physician. | |||
| The combination of Allison discovering the truth about her birth and Mrs. Cross's suicide led to Allison being hospitalized. Constance initially disapproved of Allison's friendship with Selena. However, Constance eventually saw some good in Selena and offered her a job at her store. Allison was also friends with Kathy Ellsworth, the daughter of a mill worker and a nurse. | |||
| Eventually, the rift between mother and daughter became so bad that Allison left Peyton Place and moved to New York City.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets: Sex and Race in Peyton Place|last = Hirsh-Dickinson|first = Sally|publisher = University of New Hampshire Press|year = 2011|isbn = 9781611680416|pages = 4}}</ref> She became a writer for a magazine and was fairly successful. While in New York, Allison roomed with budding actress Stephanie Wallace. Later, Allison returned to her hometown after Selena went on trial for Lucas's murder. Selena was acquitted, but she was still tormented by vicious gossip in Peyton Place. | |||
| === Return to Peyton Place === | |||
| In the sequel, ''Return to Peyton Place'', Allison wrote a book called ''Samuel's Castle'' based on her home town. The reaction to the book shocked and angered most of the community. Two people were especially upset: ], the wife of the town's leading attorney, and Roberta Carter. Roberta's son, Ted, was married to an evil-minded woman named Jennifer Burbank, whom he met while in law school. Jennifer was a Boston ]. | |||
| Because of Allison's book, Marion and Roberta fired Allison's stepfather, high school principal Tomas Makris. However, Roberta later reversed her decision rehired Makris, ending her friendship with Marion Partridge. Roberta was later murdered by her daughter in-law. | |||
| Like her mother, Allison had an ] with a married man, her publisher, Lewis Jackman. Lewis died in a car accident, which shattered Allison. After his death, Allison and Constance bonded, as both had lost a lover. | |||
| Constance told her daughter that although Allison didn't have a child to live for, she should continue to live and return to work. Constance's support helped Allison to get back to her work and eventually heal. | |||
| In one of the ] reunions of ''Peyton Place'', it was revealed that Allison had a daughter named Megan, who returned with her to Peyton Place after Allison was raped. Megan later fell in love with a man named Dana Harrington. At first, the townspeople believed that Dana was the son of Allison's former lover, Rodney. Later, however, one of Allison's former rivals, ], discovered that Dana's father was a man named Steven Cord. Betty had once been married to Cord. | |||
| ==Soap version== | |||
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| In the television series, Allison is the daughter of Constance. Her father is believed to be an unknown man in a photo. Her real father turned out to be ],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url = http://fiftiesweb.com/tv/peyton-place/|title = Peyton Place|access-date = 3 October 2015|website = Fifties Web}}</ref> a man wrongly convicted of murder. Constance doesn't want her daughter to know who her real father is. Allison reads a lot and doesn't have a lot of friends of her own age. She is good friends with ], an older man who works at the newspaper and she prefers to call Uncle Matt. | |||
| She falls in love with the popular ]. They date for a short period, before Rodney knocks up ] and marries her. He later admits he had planned to run away from town with her if Betty hadn't gotten pregnant. After Rodney and Betty are divorced, he and Allison begin dating again, but Rodney's arrest for murder and Allison's coma (see below) tend to get in the way. | |||
| When Elliot is released from jail he returns to Peyton Place. Constance is afraid the truth will come up and tries to keep Allison away from him. However, she and Elliot become good friends after they find out they share the same interests. In this period, Allison also became good friends with her teacher Paul Hanley, the man who had testified against Elliot in court. | |||
| She ends up finding out who Elliot really is and her good relationship with her mother was strained from that point forward. Even when Constance and Elliot get married, she does not approve. Meanwhile, she becomes the babysitter of ], a deaf 6-year old. Kim's father David Schuster constantly flirts with her. | |||
| Her bond with Kim ends abruptly when Marion Fowler strikes Allison with her automobile. Allison is sent into a coma for several weeks.<ref name=":0" /> When she came out of the coma, she had ] and couldn't remember the entire past year. Therefore, she didn't recognize Elliot as her father. The emotional package eventually became too much for her and she experienced a nervous breakdown. She ended up cutting her hair. | |||
| As noted above, in this period, she again had a relationship with Rodney. However, he couldn't handle her anymore and broke it off. She later became close to the blind Chris Webber. Chris was believed to be blinded by Ann Howard, but he confessed it was actually his brother Lee Webber who was responsible. Allison was nearly capable of handling all the ] until Ann died, when she decided to leave town. | |||
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