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Berg was the author and lead actress of NBC's short-lived 1935 radio show House of Glass, in which she played a hotel owner. After the sugar factory where her husband worked burned down, she developed a semi-autobiographical skit, portraying a Jewish family in a Bronx tenement, into a radio show.
Gertrude Berg was a versatile and popular performer in radio, stage, screen, and television. She created and starred in "The Goldbergs", a long-running comedy series about a Jewish family in New York.
Gertrude Berg (born Oct. 3, 1899, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 14, 1966, New York City) was an American actor, producer, and screenwriter whose immensely popular situation comedy about the Goldberg family ran in various radio, television, stage, and film versions between 1929 and 1953.
Gertrude Berg was a writer, actress and producer who created and starred in "The Goldbergs", a popular radio and TV show. She was also a humanitarian who adopted two war orphans and won a Tony Award for her role in "A Majority of One".
Mar 15, 2021 · Radio star Gertrude Berg looked at this mess and wanted in. Desperately. She had become one of the most famous voices in the US with her radio show The Goldbergs, which she had created,...
Gertrude Berg, known to millions of Americans as the original Jewish mother of radio, television, stage and screen, died yesterday of heart failure at Doctors Hospital after a brief...
Jul 9, 2009 · 1h 32m. By Stephen Holden. July 9, 2009. “The Oprah of her day” is one talking head’s description of the broadcasting pioneer Gertrude Berg in “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg,” Aviva Kempner’s engrossing...
