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Gertrude Berg (born October 3, 1899; died
September 14, 1966) was a star of  old-time radio
and television. 

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.

When the show first moved to TV, Berg's co-star,
Philip Loeb, was Hollywood blacklist|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.  

In 1959, Berg won a Tony Award as "Best Actress in
a Play" for her performance in "A Majority of
One."

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.

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