Yidl Mitn Fidl

She is Molly Picon, star of the Yiddish theater, vaudeville, television and films, in the musical Yiddle with His Fiddle (or in Yiddish, Yidl Mitn Fidl).

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For Yidl Mitn Fidl (1937), directed by Joseph Green with songs by Ellstein and Itsik Manger, Picon, playing a girl who dresses as a boy at her father's bidding, was paid ten thousand dollars, the highest salary for a Yiddish movie; dubbed into English in 1961, it was retitled Castles in the Air.

Jewish Women in Comedy - Molly Picon 2010

Picon also appeared in the 1935 film Yidl Mitn Fidl (Yiddle with a Fiddle), here again as Yidl, a boy.

Yiddish Theater in Vienna. 2009

She also appeared in Yiddish films such as Yidl Mitn Fidl.

Yiddish Theater in Vienna. 2009

For Yidl Mitn Fidl (1937), directed by Joseph Green with songs by Ellstein and Itsik Manger, Picon, playing a girl who dresses as a boy at her father’s bidding, was paid ten thousand dollars, the highest salary for a Yiddish movie; dubbed into English in 1961, it was retitled Castles in the Air.

Molly Picon. 2009