The perfect end-of-the-summer season dance song for Labor Day weekend...
Morris Stolof's beautiful "Moonglow" from the 1955 movie, "Picnic".
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Based on a play by William Inge, this romantic melodrama centers
around life in a small Kansas town over Labor Day weekend.
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When enigmatic drifter Hal (William Holden) comes to town
to visit his old fraternity buddy Alan (Cliff Robertson) he not
only disrupts the lives of the people he meets, but ends up
falling in love with the town beauty queen, Madge,
(Kim Novak) who is Alan's girlfriend. Or is she?
But no spoilers here! Watch the movie!
Here is a bit of movie trivia: On the evening of May 25, 1955 while filming
on location in Halstead, Kansas, a violent tornado ripped through the area,
forcing the cast and crew to take shelter. While the storm spared the movie set,
the neighboring town of Udall, with a population of 500 residents,
was nearly leveled by the storm, which was later claimed to be
the most deadliest EF-5 tornado to ever hit the state of Kansas.
No building within the town limits was left untouched by the twister.
This included a grain elevator, a water tower, an old grade school,
the new high school, the city hall, and three churches.
The National Weather Service reported 80 lives were lost
and 250 people in Udall were injured in the storm that night.
After the storm passed, the film crew from the movie drove their
trucks and equipment to Udall to help clean up the damage.
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