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
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.