Gertrude Berg

Gertrude Berg (born Oct. 3, 1899, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 14, 1966, New York City) was an American actor, producer, and screenwriter whose immensely popular situation comedy about the Goldberg family ran in various radio, television, stage, and film versions between 1929 and 1953. In December 1918, while enrolled in a playwriting extension course at Columbia University, Gertrude Edelstein met and married Lewis Berg. Having begun to write radio scripts, Gertrude Berg proposed to...