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3 unusual facts about Molly Picon


Jenny Valliere

Along with Molly Picon, she was a star at New York City's Second Avenue Theater in the Yiddish Theater District; a 1925 New York Times article singles them out as the only women whose talents provided the major anchor for a New York Yiddish theater at that time.

Molly Picon

Picon's most famous film, Yidl Mitn Fidl (1936), was made on location in Poland, and has her wearing male clothing through most of the film.

New Century Theatre

It then became the Shakespeare Theatre, the Molly Picon Theatre, the Venice, and twice reverted to Jolson Theatre, honoring Jolson, before finally being refurbished and reopened as the New Century on April 8, 1944.



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