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Molly Picon was born Margaret Pyekoon in New York
City on 1 June 1898. She was a star of stage,
screen and television. Her career began at the age
of six in the Yiddish Theatre.  In 1912, she
debuted at the Arch Street Theatre in New York and
became a star of the Second Avenue Yiddish stage.
She was so popular in the 1920s that many shows
had the name 'Molly' in their title. In 1931 she
opened the Molly Picon Theatre.

Picon appeared in many films, starting with the
silent movies. Her most famous film, Yidl Mit'n
Fidl, 1936, was made on location in Poland.  She
made her English language debut on stage in 1940.
On Broadway, she starred in the first staged play
of Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn in 1961, and
in the musical Milk and Honey also in 1961. 

Her first English speaking role in the movies was
the film version of Come Blow Your Horn in 1963.
She also played "Yente, the Matchmaker" in the
film version of the Broadway hit Fiddler on the
Roof in 1971.

An entire room is filled with her memorabilia at
the 2nd Avenue Deli|Second Avenue Deli in New
York.

She died on April 5 1992 at age 93 from
Alzheimer's disease in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Her husband, from 1919 until his death in 1975
from cancer, was Jacob Kalish. They had no
children.