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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...