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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Tillie Edelstein, better known as Gertrude Berg, was one of the most fascinating cultural figures of mid-20th century America. And testament to the power of writing what you know. She developed a ...

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.

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 ...

Sorry, no, darling. That wonderful challah will not be there. But present after two weekend showings of "Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg" will be Gertrude Berg's grandson ...