Parkins' Place

May, 1976

She arrives at Kennedy Airport via jet from London and heads start turning as if she'd never been away. Brunette, surprisingly petite, with brown-velvet eyes--and dressed in trim greenish denim travel togs that she calls "my James Dean boiler suit"--Barbara Parkins enjoys the indestructible celebrity of having played Betty Anderson on Peyton Place for five long years (1964--1969). Ryan O'Neal got her pregnant and made Rodney a household word. Mia Farrow dropped out as Allison to marry...

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