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Molly Picon ( February 28, 1898 – April 6, 1992) was an American actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a lyricist. She was first and foremost a star in Yiddish theatre and film, but as Yiddish theatre faded she began to perform in English-language productions.
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19 June 1981
A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to protest the 55 mph speed limit then in effect in the U.
21 November 1975
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
29 June 1984
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheels spinning fast.
03 November 1971
In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.
04 March 1948
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
16 June 2007
A documentary film about three generations of female Jewish comedians and the complexity and challenges of their relationship to comedy, Judaism, and gender.
17 August 1923
Morris Brown, a New York gambler acquainted more with his checkbook than his prayer book, returns to Galicia with his very American daughter, Mollie (Molly Picon) for a family wedding.
26 June 1974
Henrietta Robbins borrows money from a loan shark to finance her husband's investment in the stock market.
01 January 1921
First film of Molly Picon. Plot unknown, the film is considered lost.
30 September 1936
A young woman poses as a man in a group of klezmer musicians in Poland.
05 June 1963
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
24 December 1938
Mamele embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz--tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, religious Jews celebrating sukkot--but the film belongs to Molly Picon who romps undaunted through her dutiful daughter role saving siblings, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age.
01 January 1971
Toronto-born Norman Jewison first gained prominence producing for Canadian television, then went on to greater success making Hollywood theatrical features.
01 January 2002
Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander.
28 June 1937
Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.
13 October 1959
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
30 September 1929
Vitaphone #919. Molly is seen in two short sketches; in the first she's a glamorous star being interviewed in her dressing room, telling the audience the story of how she shot her husband (a popular subject of gags in the late 1920s).
20 January 1934
A three reel Vitaphone musical short; Vitaphone production reels #1624-1626. Molly Picon's first American film and her talkie debut.
29 May 1930
The first Yiddish musical on film, based off of the song "My Yiddishe Momme" made famous by Sophie Tucker.
02 May 1936
A one reel "Big Time Vaudeville" Vitaphone short; Vitaphone production reel #1965.
