MOLLY PICON (1952)...
 
"By the summer of 1952 Steven, with Meisner's assistance, had landed a small role in a Jewish repertory company on the Lower East Side that featured the legendary Yiddish actress Molly Picon. He had four lines of dialogue in Yiddish, which took him forever to learn. He never could master the accent and was fired after four performances, band not long after, with Steven's stint at the Neighbourhood Playhouse coming to an end, Meisner urged him to try out for the prestigious and even harder to get into Herbert BERGHOF Studio." {Steve McQueen, Marc Eliot page 27}
 
{Jaffe Yiddish Art Theatre, ca. 1940}
{189 Second Avenue and East 12th Street}
 
https://www.villagepreservation.org/2018/02/09/a-landmark-from-the-heyday-of-yiddish-theater-that-still-stands-today/
 
 

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