Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Gaviota: the Mexican Molly Picon!
Tonight, watching Gaviota's odious and unconvincing skipping among the agave bushes (as she tries to convince us she's a lively young thing), I thought of Molly Picon, especially her ridiculous movie Mamele (means "little mother" - she was the youngest daughter taking care of a bunch of ungrateful lazy siblings) and googled this up for you.
There was no plastic surgery back then - on the other hand, cameras were not as unforgiving as they are now...
Excerpts from
Molly Picon (1898-1992)
With her geneyvishe oygn [mischievous eyes], dark bob, and endearing acrobatics, she won hearts ...
For much of her career, her forte was the adorable waif, often a motherless boy, who, with naive gumption, a charming display of tears, laughter, somersaults, splits, songs, cartwheels, and musical instruments, accompanied by an occasional farm animal and good luck, managed to make it in the adult world.
She seemed simultaneously all-American in her winsome tomboy persona, the irresistible scamp.
In Mamele (1938), a comic melodrama from a play by Meyer Schwartz, Picon, over forty, played Khavtski, an energetic twelve-year-old gamin who cares for her widowed father and six siblings. This was the last Jewish film made in Poland before the Nazi onslaught.
There was no plastic surgery back then - on the other hand, cameras were not as unforgiving as they are now...
Molly Picon (1898-1992)
With her geneyvishe oygn [mischievous eyes], dark bob, and endearing acrobatics, she won hearts ... For much of her career, her forte was the adorable waif, often a motherless boy, who, with naive gumption, a charming display of tears, laughter, somersaults, splits, songs, cartwheels, and musical instruments, accompanied by an occasional farm animal and good luck, managed to make it in the adult world.
She seemed simultaneously all-American in her winsome tomboy persona, the irresistible scamp.
In Mamele (1938), a comic melodrama from a play by Meyer Schwartz, Picon, over forty, played Khavtski, an energetic twelve-year-old gamin who cares for her widowed father and six siblings. This was the last Jewish film made in Poland before the Nazi onslaught.
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Yep!--There's that same wideeyed look that Gaviata has. ^^^^Susanlynn
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: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 9:04:00 AM EDT
: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 9:04:00 AM EDT
MELINAMA-Thanks for the pic and info on this great actress of the yiddish theater and screen. She was actually on an episode of the old tv sitcom "Car 54 - Where are you?" It was really wonderful.
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 3:03:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 3:03:00 PM EDT
I remember her! She was in several sitcoms as well as her movie and stage career. What an interesting biography. I never knew, just always thought she was a cute old lady actress. Fascinating! Thanks so much for sharing.
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 7:23:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 7:23:00 PM EDT
Thanks for the interesting post on Molly P. I always thought of her as a sweet old lady with an accent.
Her background was certainly much richer and varied than the t.v. fare I saw her in.
I'm often surprised by what I learn here that has very little or nothing to do with novelas. It's so refreshing!
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Her background was certainly much richer and varied than the t.v. fare I saw her in.
I'm often surprised by what I learn here that has very little or nothing to do with novelas. It's so refreshing!
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 7:45:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 7:45:00 PM EDT
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