- Naissance
- Décédé(e)5 avril 1992 · Lancaster, Pennsylvanie, États-Unis (maladie d'Alzheimer)
- Nom de naissanceMalka Opiekun
- Taille5′ (1,52 m)
- Molly Picon est née le 28 février 1898 dans l'état de New York, États-Unis. Elle était actrice. Elle est connue pour Un violon sur le toit (1971), The Cannonball Run (1981) et Mamele (1938). Elle était mariée à Jacob Kalich. Elle est morte le 5 avril 1992 à Pennsylvanie, États-Unis.
- Conjoint(e)Jacob Kalich(29 juin 1919 - 16 mars 1975) (son décès)
- Was a strong, popular presence in World War II, performing for the sick, the American troops, and the Jewish Holocaust survivors. She also was active in the Foster Parents' Plan for war children.
- Popular at the Second Avenue Theater in New York, she opened the theatre in 1931 when they changed the theater's name to The Molly Picon Theater in her honor.
- Along with her husband, the writer/actor Jacob Kalich, she wrote over 100 songs and skits for the stage.
- Her mother was from Kyiv, Ukraine, and worked as a seamstress. Her father was from Warsaw, Poland, and worked in the needles trade; he left the family when Molly was a child. The family relocated to Philadelphia where her mother sewed costumes for actresses at Kessler's Yiddish Theatre.
- Pre-eminent actress of Yiddish theater in the United States.
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