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Release Date: 10,7,2009
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Starring: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gertrude Berg, Sara Chase, Norman Lear … see all
Director: Aviva Kempner

Review
MRS. GOLDBERG is Aviva Kempner’s story of the radio and television program “The Goldbergs”. It is also the story of the powerhouse woman behind that program, Gertrude Berg. This is a very well produced documentary easily of the quality of PBS documentary programs like “American Masters” and “The American Experience”. The story is told using original photographs and films of the period, excerpts from the program, and interview comments by people like Susan Stamberg (of NPR), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (associate justice of the United States Supreme Court),and Norman Lear. Also included are excerpts from a 1950s interviewof Gertrude Berg by Edward R. Morrow.The first popular situation comedy on the radio was also the first popular situation comedy on television. The program was originally titled “The Rise of the Goldbergs”, and later shortened to just “The Goldbergs”. The program was a sort of “Mother Knows Best” with the mother being the smart, wise, and big-hearted Molly Goldberg. It was written by and starred Gertrude Berg–born Tilly Edelstein–and became a sort of comedy/drama soap opera, at first 15 minutes a day and later expanded to a half hour. The stories were about the family of Molly Goldberg, a woman who was very much like Gertrude Berg herself. It had a real feel for everyday lifeand was spiced with aside comments on the action from Berg to the listener who was treated much like a member of the family.

Most television viewers of the early 21st century have never heard of the small screen clan The Goldbergs, but from January 10, 1949 through October 19, 1954 (and then for two years after that in syndication), this sitcom family dominated a series of networks – first CBS, then NBC, and finally the fledgling Dumont station.

The premise dealt with various goings-on in the household of Molly (Gertrude Berg) and Jake Goldberg (played first by Philip Loeb, then Harold Stone and then Robert Harris), a middle-class Jewish family eking out a life at Apartment 3B, East Tremont Avenue, in the Bronx, with their two teenage children, Rosalie (Arlene McQuade) and Sammy (played by Larry Robinson, then Tom Taylor). Housewife Molly’s two favorite passions involved gossiping and dispensing the old-school wisdom of a Jewish mother, and one of her most frequent expressions was “Yoo-hoo Mrs. Bloom,” which she used to summon a neighbor friend. This half-hour program carries very bittersweet overtones, particularly in retrospect: on the one hand, it marked one of the first major series to depict a middle-class Jewish family in the immediate aftermath of the WWII years; on the other, it fell prey to the hysteria of the McCarthy era, especially when star Philip Loeb was blacklisted as an alleged Communist off-camera and booted off of the series – with tragic consequences. But at the center of it all stood one of the most gifted and brilliant comediennes of the post-WWII era. Gertrude Berg pioneered radio (where she actually originated the Molly character) and then television, and led an incredibly fascinating life that included bringing the struggles of everyday Jewish Americans into homes across the country, and fighting witch-hunts to protect the job security of her co-star. With this documentary profile, acclaimed filmmaker Aviva Kempner (The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg) chronicles Berg’s astonishing life, from her birth in 1899 Harlem through her successful career and her death in 1966. Like the Greenberg film, this project emerged via the efforts of Kempner’s Ciesla Foundation – an organization devoted to profiling unsung Jewish heroes. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
Plot Summary: From Aviva Kempner, maker of “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg,” comes this humorous and eye-opening story of television pioneer Gertrude Berg. She was the creator, principal writer, and star of “The Goldbergs,” a popular radio show for 17 years which became television’s very first character-driven domestic sitcom in 1949. Berg received the first Best Actress Emmy in history, and paved the way for women in the entertainment industry. Includes interviews with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, actor Ed Asner, producers Norman Lear (”All in the Family”) and Gary David Goldberg (”Family Ties”), and NPR correspondent Susan Stamberg.

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