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Picnic was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won two. The film dramatizes 24 hours in the life of a small Kansas town in the mid-20th century during the Labor Day holiday. It is the story of an outsider whose appearance disrupts and rearranges the lives of those whom he encounters.
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.
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).
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) Novak's next project, The Eddy Duchin Story (1956), cast her as Marjorie Oelrichs , the wife of pianist Eddy Duchin , played by Tyrone Power .
"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.
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