Molly Picon
Know for: Acting
Born: 1898-05-31
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Also know as:
Come Blow Your Horn (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.
Fiddler on the Roof (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...
Murder on Flight 502 (1975)
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.
Yiddle with His Fiddle (1936)
A young woman poses as a man in a group of klezmer musicians in Poland.
The Cannonball Run (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...
Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women (2007)
A documentary film about three generations of female Jewish comedians and the complexity and challenges of their relationship to comedy, Judaism, and...
The Great Yiddish Love (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...
Let's Make a Night of It (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.
Molly Picon, The Celebrated Character Comedienne (1929)
A young actress is interviewed and flashes back to her tenement days.
East and West (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...
Mamele (1938)
Mamele embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz--tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, religious Jews celebrating...
For Pete's Sake (1974)
Henrietta Robbins borrows money from a loan shark to finance her husband's investment in the stock market. However, when their stock plummets, she...
Norman Jewison, Film Maker (1971)
Toronto-born Norman Jewison first gained prominence producing for Canadian television, then went on to greater success making Hollywood theatrical...
Cannonball Run II (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...