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Born Gertrude Edelstein in New York City, she married Lewis Berg in 1918. As an actress, she is most famous for starring as the Jewish housewife "Molly Goldberg" in The Rise of the Goldbergs, better known simply as The Goldbergs, on radio (1929-1934; 1938-1945), Broadway (Me and Molly, 1948) and television (1949-1951; 1952-54). She wrote the television show and co-wrote the screenplay for the movie. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, music, and culture. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... The Goldbergs was a situation comedy which ran on USA radio from 1929 to 1947 and then on television from 1949 to 1956. ... This article is about the street in New York City. ...

When the show first moved to TV, Berg's co-star, Philip Loeb, was blacklisted as an alleged Communist. She stood by him at first, refusing to fire him from the program, until it became impossible to avoid. Loeb received as generous a severance package as possible under the circumstances, but, tragically, Loeb ended up committing suicide. "The Goldbergs" went off the air anyway, but returned the next year. Philip Loeb Philip Loeb (March 28, 1892 – September 1, 1955) was an American actor. ... Playwright Arthur Miller testifies before HUAC The Hollywood blacklist was a group of mainly film actors, directors, and screenwriters in the late 1940s and early 1950s who were unable to work openly after having been targeted by Hollywood producers who were members of the MPAA after being convicted of contempt... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David, 1787 Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. ...

In 1959, Berg won a Tony Award as "Best Actress in a Play" for her performance in "A Majority of One." What is popularly called the Tony Award® (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater. ...

Gertrude Berg died of heart failure in a hospital where she had been undergoing routine tests in New York City in 1966 at the age of 66. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, music, and culture. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...

External links

• Gertrude Berg at the Internet Movie Database
• Gertrude Berg at the Internet Broadway Database