Picnic (1955) | |
| Director(s) | Joshua Logan |
| Producer(s) | Fred Kohlmar |
| Top Genres | Drama, Romance |
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Picnic (1955) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Joshua Logan and produced by Fred Kohlmar.
Academy Awards 1955 --- Ceremony Number 28 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Supporting Actor | Arthur O'Connell | Nominated |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: William Flannery, Jo Mielziner; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley | Won |
| Best Director | Joshua Logan | Nominated |
| Best Film Editing | Charles Nelson, William A. Lyon | Won |
| Best Music - Scoring | George Duning | Nominated |
| Best Picture | Fred Kohlmar, Producer | Nominated |
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COMEDY GOLD #18: The picnic from To Catch a Thief (1955)
By Carol Martinheira on Aug 16, 2019 From The Old Hollywood GardenCOMEDY GOLD #18: The picnic from To Catch a Thief (1955) On August 16, 2019August 16, 2019 By CarolIn Uncategorized To Catch a Thief (1955, dir. Alfred Hitchcock) boasts not only two of the most beautiful people who have ever lived as its leads, but also some of the mo... Read full article
Picnic (1956, Joshua Logan)
By Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 4, 2019 From The Stop ButtonPicnic is all about sex. It can never talk about being all about sex because it?s from 1956 and it?s set in small-town Kansas anyway and no one in small-town Kansas was going to be talking about sex. Not when schoolteachers like Rosalind Russell are trying to ban books for even hinting at sex. But i... Read full article
Picnic (1956, Joshua Logan)
By Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 4, 2019 From The Stop ButtonPicnic is all about sex. It can never talk about being all about sex because it?s from 1956 and it?s set in small-town Kansas anyway and no one in small-town Kansas was going to be talking about sex. Not when schoolteachers like Rosalind Russell are trying to ban books for even hinting at sex. But i... Read full article
Picnic (1956, Joshua Logan)
on Jun 4, 2019 From The Stop ButtonPicnic is all about sex. It can never talk about being all about sex because it?s from 1956 and it?s set in small-town Kansas anyway and no one in small-town Kansas was going to be talking about sex. Not when schoolteachers like Rosalind Russell are trying to ban books for even hinting at sex. But i... Read full article
Picnic (1956, Joshua Logan)
on Jun 4, 2019 From The Stop ButtonPicnic is all about sex. It can never talk about being all about sex because it?s from 1956 and it?s set in small-town Kansas anyway and no one in small-town Kansas was going to be talking about sex. Not when schoolteachers like Rosalind Russell are trying to ban books for even hinting at sex. But i... Read full article
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Rosemary Sidney: Look at that sunset, Howard!
Howard Bevans: A sunset's a beautiful thing, all right.
Rosemary Sidney: It's like the daytime didn't want to end, isn't it? It's like the daytime was gonna put up a big scrap, set the world on fire to keep the night from creeping on.
Rosemary Sidney: [Giddily to her schoolteacher friends just prior to eloping] So long, girls! You know what you can tell the principal for me!
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Insisting on authenticity, director Joshua Logan filmed in several Kansas towns, including Hutchinson, only 75 miles from Udall, a town leveled by a tornado days after filming began. "It's gotta look like Kansas and it will if I have to kill every last one of ya!," the volatile Logan yelled at his cast. William Holden suffered a leg gash on a railroad signal light, Kim Novak was stung on the hip by a bee underneath her $500 Jean Louis gown, and Rosalind Russell was "bruised from earlobe to toenail during a wild gambol across a suspension bridge." A local 70-year-old "spinster" saw her film debut canceled when she broke both legs and several ribs during a fall down an embankment. Filming was interrupted almost daily by hailstorms and "wailing" tornado warnings. The actual picnic was on a muddy fairground at Halstead, Kansas. Cast and crew were "half-consumed" by "carnivorous" bugs. Phone calls had to be made from old-time crank telephones at Halstead's Baker Hotel.
Kim Novak's character Madge was originated on Broadway by Janice Rule.
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