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 ...

One of our worst tendencies as Americans is our habit of looking forward to such a degree we forget how we got where we are. So we don't remember, if we ever knew, all those people who set the stage ...

Everyone knows what a sitcom is, but not a lot of people know who invented it. As filmmaker Aviva Kempner tells Robert Siegel, the sitcom as we know it first came through on the radio as a show called ...

How many Broadway shows has Gertrude Berg been in? Gertrude Berg has appeared on Broadway in 3 shows. How many West End shows has Gertrude Berg been in? Gertrude Berg has not appeared in the West End ...

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 ...

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 the ...

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 ...

“Something on My Own” Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929-1956 by Glenn D. Smith Jr. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2007. 225 pages. $24.95. Gertrude Berg was a remarkable figure ...

“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.