Comments on: Have You Ever Heard of Gertrude Berg?

By: WOODY KAPLAN

WOODY KAPLAN — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:22:18 +0000

I remember as a little kid watching this show every week on TV. Didn’t realize it was from 1949. Where have all the years gone?

By: mudduck

mudduck — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:25:15 +0000

The third television station to go on the air in Oklahoma was KSWO-TV, Lawton, in March 1953. I went to work there in October, editing film and sweeping out the one studio. No cable connection till a couple of years later — we got our Dumont Network programs on film in cans by mail. The Goldbergs were one of them. I was a fan, having seen Ms Berg’s play Majority of One on Broadway (with Cedric Hardwick — the movie, of course, was done with Rosalind Russell and Alec Guiness) in 1961. I remember one dialog exchange from the show:

Bert: My daughter Rosalie likes mystery programs like Lawrence Welk and musical programs like Peter Gunn.

Objector: But Welk is a musician and Peter Gunn is a detective.

Berg: By Rosalie, Peter Gunn is music [it featured a jazz score] and Lawrence Welk is a mystery!

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:14:52 +0000

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2009_09_17.html#017740

I heard about this doc from Mark Evanier a few months ago. I really can’t say I had heard of her before that, and I used to listen to a lot of old time radio. 2-minute video at the link, along with Evanier’s brief comments.

By: Joan

Joan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:19:24 +0000

I’ve definitely heard of her, but I minored in Jewish Studies. So I cheated. *g* I even wrote a seminar paper on her. I wonder if I still have it. I’m dying to see the movie, though; Aviva Kempner had announced that GB was her next subject after she finished making the rounds with her last documentary (on Hank Greenberg, excellent film), but what with raising funds and tracking down materials and interviews etc etc etc, it’s been years. And now I have to wait even longer, and hope it hits DVD. Argh! On the plus side, all the surviving episodes of The Goldbergs are being released by the awesome Shout Factory next year, so that’ll be fun.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:31:59 +0000

I have heard of her though, sadly, I’ve heard so little of her that I usually need to hear a short recap of her career to remember who she is (I never can recognize her by name). It’s really sad that TV historians rarely remember her.