[78-L] Gertrude Berg is funny!

[Jeff Sultanof]

"How to Be a Jewish Mother" was originally a book that everyone in my family
thought was hysterical. My dad used to read it aloud to us.

Jeff Sultanof

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> She also starred as Molly Goldberg in a movie titled "Molly."
>
>
> Bud
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> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Michael Biel
> Date: 6/5/2009 1:26:10 PM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Gertrude Berg is funny!
>
> Shortly after Correll and Gosden put "Amos 'n' Andy" on the network in
> 1929 following over a year on recorded syndication, Berg wrote and
> starred in "The Rise of the Goldbergs" on NBC, also as a daily serial
> program.  The main difference was that she and most of the cast were
> Jewish, the ethnic group of the program, while Correll and Gosden were
> Whites playing Blacks.  Beyond the live then filmed TV sit-com versions
> of "The Goldbergs" she appeared on Broadway in 1960 in "A Majority of
> One" co-starring with Sir Cedric Hardwicke.  Their pairing was so
> popular (especially when they did a scene from the show on Ed Sullivan)
> that they then starred in a TV sit-com together "Mrs. G. Goes To
> College", but the movies recast their roles to Rosalind Russell and Alec
> Guiness in the Majority of One movie.  dl's post has the rest of the
> story.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [78-L] Gertrude Berg is funny!
> From: "Jim Whipkey" <suuford at msn.com>
> Date: Fri, June 05, 2009 12:55 pm
> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>
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>
> Have finished listening to my newly acquired Gertrude Berg LP, How to be
> a Jewish Mother. It's hilarious, must have been recorded late 1950s,
> there are references to astronauts. I take exception with the premise,
> however, Jewish mothers have no exclusive on her methods. My own
> Mother's
> guilt trip attempts caused me to often tell her she was a "great Jewish
> Mother", she never did get it.
> Lot of wonderful material in the LP, one which stands out for me is the
> son tells his Mother he won a Pontiac convertible, her reply? Wonderful,
> the insurance alone will break us!
>
> When did Gertrude Berg die? and while I know her only from the Goldberg
> TV show, what else is in her resume?
> Jim Whipkey
>
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