Molly Picon

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AKA: Molly Pyekoon

Nationality: American

Birthdate: 06/01/1898

Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA

Death Date: 04/05/1992

Celebrated musical comedy entertainer who began her career with Philadelphia's Arch Street Theater in 1912, later becoming a beloved star of New York's Second Avenue Yiddish stage and a cross-over Broadway performer.

Petite and energetic, Picon worked prolifically in plays and vaudeville, making her Yiddish film debut in "Mazel Tov" (1924). In 1936 she traveled to Poland with Polish-born American director Joseph Green to star in the charming semi-musical "Yiddle With His Fiddle". Picon played an itinerant musician posing as a boy in order to travel the Polish countryside without sexual

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Yente

1971

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1963

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Herself

Year

Milestone

Moved to Philadelphia as a child

At age five won a teddy bear in a burlesque-house amateur program; mother recognized her talent and encouraged Picon, who started singing for 50 cents a night

1904

Stage debut at age six in Philadelphia under the management of Michael Thomashefsky

1904

Appeared in Yiddish repertory in "Gabriel", "The Silver King," "Sappho", "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Shulamite" in Philadelphia and on tour

First appeared in cabaret