Molly Picon
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Brief Description: Photographs, scripts, playbills, musical scores, correspondence, recordings, plaques and art objects relating to Picon's theatrical career.  Personal photographs of Picon and her husband Jacob Kalich.  Photographs of Picon in various stage and film productions including the films *Fiddler on the Roof*, *East and West*, *Mamele*, *Yidl mitn fidl*, *Milk and Honey*, and the plays, *Kuni Leml*, *Motel Payse*.  Manuscripts of plays including *Shmendrik* and *Yankele*. Music by Abe Ellstein, Mordecai Gebirtig, Abraham Goldfaden, Molly Picon, Joseph Rumshinsky. Playbills and programs from films and theater.  Scrapbook of correspondence, theater tickets.  Recordings of songs performed by Picon.  Plaques, citations, awards.  Original art items including portraits, illustrations and cartoons on various topics, many of them studies of Picon.
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YIVO Online Guide
Record Series Number: RG 738/RG 738
Created by: Picon, Molly (1898-1992)
Volume: 0.0
Arrangement: The collection is arranged in 5 series: I) Photographs (folders 1-24); II) Theater - Vilna (25-30); III) Records (31-64); IV) Plaques, Awards & Citations (65-108); V) Original Art & Misc. Pictorial Items (109-122)
Subject Index
Art
Australia
Film and Cinema
Music
Poland
South Africa
Theater
United States
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Papers
Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/11/14 ; 1999/03/03 ; GMB
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