News

Gertrude Berg’s “The Goldbergs” was a bold, beloved portrait of a Jewish family. Then the blacklist obliterated her legacy.
Before Lucille Ball, Martha Stewart or Oprah, there was Gertrude Berg, and if you’re compelled to ask, “Gertrude who?” you aren’t alone. Berg, a pioneer in the entertainment industry, was ...
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 ...
The $5.5 million estate in Westchester County was a 19th-century New York governor's country home and, later, a stop on the ...
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 ...
The estate is further enriched by a stunning pool oasis, framed by rolling lawns and flowering borders." Other buildings on ...
Politician DeWitt Clinton and Alexander Hamilton’s botanist were among the visitors to the historic home, which is being ...
Plump, placid, matronly Mrs. Gertrude Berg scarcely knew what to make of it. The august Princeton University Library wanted to salt away the scripts of her radio show The Goldbergs (TIME, June 23, ...