Picnic
Starring: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field
Director: Joshua Logan
Writer: Daniel Taradash
Producer: Fred Kohlmar
Picnic is a 1955 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Joshua Logan, adapted by Daniel Taradash from William Inge's 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. It stars William Holden, Kim Novak, and Rosalind Russell, with Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, and Cliff Robertson in supporting roles. The film dramatizes 24 hours in the life of a small Kansas town in the mid-20th century during the Labor Day holiday.
Trivia
- Won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color.
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture; Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score.
- Columbia Pictures acquired the screen rights to William Inge's play Picnic for $350,000 in September 1953.
- Daniel Taradash once indicated that Columbia studio head Harry Cohn had offered him the opportunity to direct Picnic in exchange for writing the script.
- Logan had previously directed I Met My Love Again (1938) and Picnic would be the second feature film he directed in 17 years.
Filming Locations
- Kansas
Previous Showings
10 Runs • 8 Festivals
13,953 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (December 21, 1930)
Original Run: December 21, 1930 (Sunday - Tuesday)
All runs on record (10):
- Short December 21, 1930 (Sunday - Tuesday)Mickey Mouse
- September 1 - 4, 1990 · 2,997 ticketsw/ Vertigo
- February 12 - 15, 1998 · 1,280 ticketsMovie Listing Guide February 1998w/ Paris - When It Sizzles
- November 17 - 19, 1999 · 604 ticketsHoliday 1999w/ The Southerner
- September 2 - 5, 2000 · 1,929 ticketsSummer 2000w/ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- September 4 - 7, 2004 · 1,512 ticketsSummer 2004w/ Love is a Many Splendored Thing
- September 2 - 4, 2006 · 1,554 ticketsSummer 2006w/ The Quiet Man
- August 28 - 31, 2009 · 1,775 ticketsSummer 2009w/ Sunset Boulevard
- August 10 - 13, 2019 · 1,105 ticketsSummer 2019w/ Sunset Boulevard
- September 4 - 6, 2026 · 1,197 ticketsSummer 2026 including the Films of Marilyn Monroew/ Bus Stop