House from the movie "Picnic"

This is the house in Nickerson, KS, that was used as the home for Kim Novak, Susan Strasburg, Betty Field and their roomer, Rosalind Russell in the movie "Picnic."

And  here is the alley behind the house where William Holden arrived to upset Cliff Robertson's

Labor Day picnic. 

Several other local areas were used: Sterling Lake, a railroad  track near Salina and grain

elevators in Hutchinson and the scenes at the picnic were in Riverside Park in Halstead KS.

 The movie is from 1955 but still fun to watch.

The play was written by Kansas author, William Inge and

two years earlier the play was on Broadway with Paul Newman in his debut role of

Hal's rich friend, Alan Seymour. Newman wanted the role of Hal but the director, Josh Logan, didn't think he was

muscular enough for the role (!) so Ralph Meeker was cast.

Later Newman moved into the lead.

(This information about the Broadway play is from the internet.)