Retro 1960s photograph featuring beautiful actress Barbara Parkins. The British Columbian beauty was involved in two of the most highly publicized projects of the 1960s the ABC primetime serial, Peyton Place, and the film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel, Valley of the Dolls. Parkins was the only female star nominated for an award throughout the run of the series Peyton Place (1964 - 1969). In 1966, she was nominated for an Emmy Award as Lead Actress in a drama series but lost to Barbara Stanwyck for The Big Valley. Parkins said while losing the award was painful, she was glad to have lost it to Stanwyck instead of Anne Francis, who was also nominated and whose work Parkins thought was unfeminine.