Gertrude Berg was an American actress, screenwriter, and producer. A pioneer of classic radio, she was one of the first women to create, write, produce, and star in a long-running hit when she premiered her serial comedy-drama The Rise of the Goldbergs (1929), later known as The Goldbergs. Her career achievements included winning a Tony Award and an Emmy Award, both for Best Lead Actress.
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.
Berg working on television scripts by hand in pencil in 1950.
Berg with orchids in the greenhouse of her summer home, 1954.
The Goldbergs (broadcast series)
The Goldbergs is a comedy-drama broadcast from 1929 to 1946 on American radio, and from 1949 to 1956 on American television. It was adapted into a 1948 play, Me and Molly; a 1950 film The Goldbergs, and a 1973 Broadway musical, Molly. It also briefly spun off a comic strip from June 8, 1944, to December 21, 1945, with art by Irwin Hasen, a comic book artist who worked on various DC Comics titles and would later do the Dondi comic strip.
Original television series DVD-release cover
Gertrude Berg and Philip Loeb (1949)
Gertrude Berg as Molly Goldberg on the show's set
Rosalie, Jake and Molly
