1. Here Runs the Bride - the Museum of the Yiddish Theatre!
"Here Comes the Bride" is, as we see, a cheerful, light operetta that is a funny, light operetta that can stand out among the general public. Molly Picon, Muni
After a couple of years of wandering in the gentile world, Molly Picon now has returned to the Yiddish stage, and we again have for ourselves this well-known threesome -- Molly Picon, Joseph Rumshinsky and Jacob Kalich.
2. An American in Shtetl: Seeing Yiddish Europe Through the Eyes of Molly ...
Jacob Kalich and Molly Picon were married in the back of a Philadelphia grocery store on June 29, 1919, with Molly wearing a dress that her mother had made out ...
ABSTRACT In 1920, following their wedding and a devastating miscarriage, Molly Picon and Jacob Kalich traveled to Europe, where they spent the next several years performing before Yiddish-speaking audiences across the continent. At the time, Molly Picon was not yet a Yiddish theater star. She was a young, relatively unknown young performer who was trying to move from English-language vaudeville into Yiddish theater, encouraged by her new husband, a Yiddish theater impresario. Their biggest obstacle? Molly’s lack of fluency in Yiddish. “I was a Yiddish illiterate,” she later wrote in her autobiography. “The Yiddish I spoke was completely bastardized.” The goal of Kalich and Picon’s European trip was for Picon to acquire a more sophisticated, authentic, “correct” Yiddish so that she would have a better chance of getting cast on Second Avenue when they returned to the United States. The pair began in Paris, then traveled throughout the cities, towns, and villages of Poland, and ultimately, across Austria, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania. Molly Picon was an American actress, but it was in Yiddish Europe that she first became a star. This essay will consider Picon and Kalich’s travels and performances across Yiddish-speaking Europe in the early 1920’s through a close examination of Picon and Kalich’s letters, reviews of Picon’s performances in both Europe and the United States, and other contemporaneous accounts of the tour. Implicitly, the stated goal Picon and Kal...
3. Molly Picon as the Bride in "Mazel Tov Molly" - NYPL Digital Collections
Molly Picon as the Bride in "Mazel Tov Molly" ; Type of Resource. still image ; Genre. Photographs ; Date Created. 1950 ; Division. Billy Rose Theatre Division.
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4. Molly Picon in "East and West," 1923 | Jewish Women's Archive
Molly Picon in "East and West," 1923 ... Defying tradition, she engages them in a scandalous dance routine that culminates in a binding model wedding ceremony.
Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson's 1923 Austrian classic, East and West is the story of a young American woman (Molly Picon) who travels with her father back to Galicia for a family wedding and falls in love with a young yeshiva scholar (Jacob Kalich) who forsakes tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart. It is the oldest surviving Yiddish film. In this clip, Molly enjoys flirting with the young yeshiva bochers (boys). Defying tradition, she engages them in a scandalous dance routine that culminates in a binding model wedding ceremony. Courtesy of the National Center for Jewish Film.
5. Pages from a Performing Life: The Scrapbooks of Molly Picon
Molly's Legacy. Molly and Jacob celebrating their 46th wedding anniversary, June 29, 1965. “I realize that Yiddish audiences are the most appreciative and the ...
Throughout their more than 50 years together Molly Picon, the “Darling of the Yiddish theater” and her husband and collaborator Yonkel (Jacob) Kalish kept scrapbooks brimming with clippings, reviews and interviews, fan letters, programs, telegrams and other ephemera. Spanning the years 1919 to 1967, primarily in Yiddish and English, the scrapbooks reveal Molly’s best self: […]
6. Molly Picon - Di Yidishe Helen Hayes - Mount Hebron Cemetery
10 mei 2024 · In 1919, Molly and Jacob were wed. Molly always remembered her unique wedding dress which was sewn by her mother from a theater curtain from ...
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7. The Molly Picon Story, Part 6: “Isn't She Wonderful?” - The CJH Blog
9 sep 2014 · With this post, we wrap up Sarah Ganton's series on Molly Picon ... Molly Picon and Jacob Kalich on their 46th wedding anniversary, 19TK.
With this post, we wrap up Sarah Ganton's series on Molly Picon, for decades a household name in Yiddish theater and vaudeville, then a Broadway star and performer with the USO, then a radio personal
8. Member of the Wedding - Steve McQueen Online
Member of the Wedding (1952). Molly Picon —– Peg O' My Heart —– Member of the Wedding —– Time Out for Ginger —– Two Fingers of Pride —– A Hatful of Rain.
Member of the Wedding. Steve McQueen on Stage.
9. Molly Picon: Star of the Yiddish Stage and Screen
2 apr 2024 · In 1919, Picon married Jacob Kalich, manager of the Boston Grand Opera House, and the two traveled through Europe for two years. During that ...
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
10. Yiddish Dance in Film
Molly Picon mixing it up with assorted dance styles. Many films were ... Molly Picon, in her autobiography, explains that the wedding scene utilized ...
Helen's Yiddish Dance Page Dances of the Jews of Eastern Europe
