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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Picnic and Written on the Wind
By Rick29 on Aug 12, 2024 From Classic Film & TV CafeKim Novak and William Holden.Picnic (1955). Joshua Logan, who directed the stage version William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, also directed this screen adaptation. Set in a small Kansas town, the story revolves around Hal Carter (William Holden), a charming drifter who arrives in town seeking... Read full article
William Holden romances Kim Novak in “Picnic”
By Stephen Reginald on Sep 12, 2023 From Classic Movie ManWilliam Holden romances Kim Novak in “Picnic” Picnic (1955) is an American drama film directed by Joshua Logan and starring William Holden, Kim Novak, and Rosalind Russell. The film is based on the Broadway play of the same name by William Inge. The movie features Susan Strasberg, C... Read full article
“Ain’t she sweet?” Kim Novak in Picnic (Joshua Logan, 1955)
By Virginie Pronovost on Feb 27, 2022 From The Wonderful World of CinemaWe sometimes forget that Kim Novak is one of those classic actresses still with us today. I’m not sure why that is, except maybe that she’s not so much in the public eye anymore. Et pourtant… She was pretty much an icon of her time, maybe not like Marilyn Monroe or Grace Kelly were... Read full article
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
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Rosemary Sidney: [Giddily to her schoolteacher friends just prior to eloping] So long, girls! You know what you can tell the principal for me!
Flo Owens: Where is everybody?
Helen Potts: At a picnic everybody disappears. Don't you remember, Flo?
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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.
Having directed William Inge's play two years previously on Broadway, Logan brought some radical cast changes to the production. Only Arthur O'Connell, Reta Shaw, and Elizabeth Wilson recreated their characterizations. Holden was cast as Hal Carter over Ralph Meeker who had played him onstage. His room-mate on Broadway had been played by Paul Newman; Cliff Robertson got the film part. Kim Stanley lost the part of Millie Owens to the much younger Susan Strasberg and Janice Rule lost out on the part of Madge to young contract player Kim Novak. Rosalind Russell actively campaigned for the role of Rosemary Sydney, the role Eileen Heckart had played onstage.
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