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May 11, 2015 · Molly Picon, an American born Yiddish icon, is living proof of the power of theater to entertain, unite, heal, and empower its audience. From a young age, it was clear that Molly belonged on stage. She won her first award at only six years old for her performance during children’s night at the Bijou Theater in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1
Picon, Molly (1898–1992)Jewish-American actress, comedian, and singer. Born on June 1, 1898, in New York City; died on April 6, 1992, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; eldest of two daughters of Lewis Picon (worked in the needle business) and Clara (Ostrow) Picon (a seamstress); attended Northern Liberties School, Philadelphia; attended William Penn High School, Philadelphia, through her junior ...
Apr 2, 2024 · April 2, 2024. by Daniel Zimmer. Polly Picon in Bublitchki, 1938. Molly Picon spent nearly all of her life acting, no stage nor screen too small nor too large. Born Margaret Pyekoon on the Lower East Side in 1898, her career started at the age of five, when she won a local theater contest. By the time she was a teenager, she joined an English ...
The Molly Picon Theatre. In the fall of 1930, back at the Second Avenue Theatre, by now renamed the Molly Picon Theatre, she was performing in The Girl of Yesterday (entering via a rope) and The Love Thief to twenty-seven hundred patrons a week. Following a tour of the States, Picon and Kalich went to Palestine, where Chaim Nachman Bialik ...
Starring Molly Picon, the 5-foot-tall, 100 lb. phenom of Yiddish stage and screen, the film is set in Poland’s textile hub of Lodz, but was shot in just six weeks on a Warsaw back lot.
Apr 5, 1992 · Molly Picon. Actress. Born Malka Opiekun in New York City, she began her career as a child performer in the Yiddish Theatre, Philadelphia. Joining Mike Tomashefsky's Yiddish stock company, she went on to be a popular Yiddish entertainer. During the 1930s, she toured as a member of The Jewish Theatrical Guild, performed on Broadway...
Aug 20, 2009 · I still find it hard to believe that the 5-foot tall, 100-pound Picon, who walked three miles a day, did 20 push ups and skipped rope daily, succumbed to Alzheimer’s. Though I had known her for ...
