Gertrude Berg left this world at the age of 68 on September 14, 1966, two months to the day before I entered it. I’d like to think that maybe our souls met one another in a possible netherworld ...

Gertrude Berg was a remarkable mid-20th-century figure: a prodigious radio and TV writer and producer, an entrepreneur, a Tony and Emmy winner, a star. As radio journalist Susan Stamberg says early on ...

Commentator David Greenberger travels around the country, talking to older people and collecting their stories. This is the story of Gertrude Berg and the difficulty of remembering. Commentator David ...

Did you know that goy god Steve McQueen got an early walk-on on a Jewish television sitcom? That’s just one of the tasty tidbits in Aviva Kempner’s celebratory but clear-eyed portrait of Gertrude Berg ...

Years ago, when I was working on a documentary on sitcom television pioneer Gertrude Berg, aka Molly Goldberg, I attended a reception at the French ambassador’s residence in Washington, DC. I spotted ...

This week Mrs. Gertrude Berg, authoress and leading lady of The Goldbergs (“Rags to Riches” with a Yiddish accent), becomes practically inescapable. Her program, which originated in 1929, is already ...

In 1951, two of television’s original leading ladies, Betty White and Gertrude Berg, were nominated in the new Emmy category of best actress. Groucho Marx was also nominated for an Emmy that year.