A scene from the second act of William Inge’s Picnic, directed by Josh Logan and performed by Scott Jackson, Eileen Heckart, Ralph Meeker, Janice Rule, and Kim Stanley, all members of the play’s original cast. This performance was telecast on The Ed Sullivan Show on May 17, 1953, two months after Picnic opened on Broadway, and is introduced by Sullivan:
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