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Most Recent Role: Herself on The Ed Sullivan Show
Gender: Female
Birthplace: New York, New York
Birth Name: Gertrude Edelstein
Date of Death: 9-14-1966
Cause of Death: Heart Failure
Born on October 3, 1899, the daughter of Jewish-Americans who ran boarding houses and hotels in the Catskills, Gertrude Berg became one of the best-known women in the radio and television industry. Originating the idea for The Goldbergs , she played the role of Molly Goldberg on radio and TV for over twenty five years. She wrote practically all the scripts for the program as well. Berg...

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The Ed Sullivan Show
Sonny and Cher / Leslie Uggams / Gertrude Berg
Sunday 26 September 1965 on CBS

Guests (from Hollywood): --Sonny & Cher - medley: "I Got You Babe," "Where Do You Go?" (Cher solo) and "But You're Mine." --Leslie Uggams - "Unchained Medley" --Gertrude Berg --Jack Carter (comedian) --Turk Murphy & his Band - "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" --UC Berkeley...

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Berg married chemical engineer and food technologist Lewis Berg in 1918. The couple had two children, Cherney and Harriet. (edit)
Gertrude Berg is buried at the Clovesville Cemetery in Clovesville, New York alongside her husband and her mother. (edit)
Gertrude Berg only began her professional career upon moving back to New York from Louisiana after the sugar plantation her husband worked at burned to the ground. (edit)
Among the numerous famous phrases made popular by Gertrude Berg on The Goldbergs is the now commonly-used "so who's to know?" (edit)
Berg is a 2005 honoree of the Paley Center for Media's (formerly, The Museum of Television and Radio) She Made It initiative - spotlighting the women who have contributed most significantly to the broadcasting industry. (edit)

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Gertrude Berg: (on growing up in a family in New York) We didn't have Tennessee Williams problems. It was more like George Kaufman. (edit)
Gertrude Berg: (on writing Jewish characters for radio) I want to show them as they really are - as I, a young Jewish girl, knew them. (edit)
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The Gertrude Berg Show
Known for half of its one season run as "Mrs. G. Goes to College," The Gertrude Berg Show brought back the long-time star of the early Golden Age sitcom The Goldbergs . In this case, Berg... more
The Goldbergs
"Yoo-hoo,Mrs. Bloom" calls each of us to the intimate daily gossip of this warm ethnic family comedy. Gertrude Berg starred in the show and won an Emmy Award for her portrayal of "Molly" the Jewish... more