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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Ordinary Americans” is a cautionary tale rooted in the past and resonant in the present. Commissioned by Palm Beach Dramaworks, Joseph McDonough’s play about pioneering television titan Gertrude Berg ...

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.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Before America loved Lucy, it said yoo-hoo to Molly Goldberg. The chatty, working-class New Yorker was a character written and ...