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Picnic is a 1955 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film filmed in CinemaScope. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was adapted for the screen by Daniel Taradash from William Inge 's 1953 Pulitzer Prize -winning play of the same name. [ 5 ]
Arthur Joseph O'Connell (March 29, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an American stage, film and television actor, who achieved prominence in character roles in the 1950s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for both Picnic (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959).
Picnic was made into a film by Columbia Pictures and was released in December 1955. It was directed by Joshua Logan, [11] and nominated for six Academy Awards, of which it won two. William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell, and Arthur O'Connell were the prominent members of the cast.
Picnic had a successful Broadway run from February 19, 1953, to April 10, 1954. [7] A film adaptation made in 1955 was directed by Joshua Logan and won two Academy Awards. In 1953, Inge's short play Glory in the Flower was telecast on Omnibus with a cast of Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, and James Dean. [8] In 1955, his play Bus Stop premiered.
Director Otto Preminger then cast her in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), in which she played Frank Sinatra's sultry ex-girlfriend. In a cast that included Eleanor Parker, Novak received praise for being one of the film's bright spots, and the film was a box-office hit. Novak singing "My Funny Valentine" in Pal Joey (1957)
Ralph Meeker (born Ralph Rathgeber; November 21, 1920 – August 5, 1988) [1] was an American film, stage, and television actor. He first rose to prominence for his roles in the Broadway productions of Mister Roberts (1948–1951) and Picnic (1953), [1] the former of which earned him a Theatre World Award for his performance.
Charley's Aunt (1953) – Brassett (Stage debut of "Lewis Clinton Kimbrough" as a member of the Gateway Stock Company of New York at Gatlinburg, Tennessee) [3] Picnic (1955) - Bomber the paper boy (While studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts; opened at the Barbizon-Plaza Theatre in New York City on October 28, 1955) [7]
A life member of The Actors Studio, [9] Field preferred performing on Broadway and appeared in Elmer Rice's Dream Girl and Jean Anouilh's The Waltz of the Toreadors, but returned to Hollywood regularly, appearing in Flesh and Fantasy (1943), The Southerner (1945), as Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1949) with Alan Ladd, Picnic (1955) with ...