In Celebration, Here's a Little Slice of "Picon Pie"*

Molly Picon first walked onstage in 1904; over the next seven decades she starred in Yiddish-language movies and English-language television, on Broadway and almost anywhere else where a light could be trained on a stage.

April 1977 found her in Miami and she dropped by WTVJ's studios for a little interview -- a reminiscence of her previous birthday spent in Miami (playing "A Majority of One" at the Carillon), and of a lovely telegram from a certain president of the United States.


* Yes, "Picon Pie," a musical retelling of Molly Picon's life and times, was a real thing. The show played Off Broadway in 2004-2005.

Subscribe to the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives’ YouTube channel and tune in to the fascination and fun of Miami and Florida’s past, captured on film and video and preserved by the Wolfson Archives at Miami Dade College.

This video and audio is copyrighted/owned by the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives at Miami Dade College.

This clip is derived from news video in the WTVJ Collection. Accession number 066-26; airdate April 15, 1977.

свернуть