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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 ]
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.
William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s.Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the television miniseries The Blue Knight (1973).
"Theme from Picnic" is a popular song, originated in the 1955 movie Picnic, starring Kim Novak and William Holden, which was based on the play of the same name. The song is often referred to simply as "Picnic." The song was published in 1956 and the music was written by George Duning.
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).
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