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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: NBC News
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Directed by | Aviva Kempner | |
Subject: | Gertrude Berg |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 7/10 --
Gertrude Berg was the Queen of All Media long before Howard Stern ever dreamed about being King.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 3/4 --
In Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, Kempner gives us a balance of artist and alter ego, introducing us to a woman we'd like to know even better.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: 3/5 --
Yoo-Hoo suggests that, yes, Berg broke new ground and, no, she shouldn't be forgotten. But it doesn't explain why she endured, or why she is so forgotten today.
Orlando Sentinel
[An] engrossing documentary portrait of a once-beloved radio and television star who died in 1966 and today is barely remembered.
New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
Berg's professional story is worthy enough to be retold, although one wishes for something a little more emotionally compelling.
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Popcornworld
YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG does an exemplary job of celebrating the seminal achievements of Gertrude Berg and reaffirming her status as a broadcasting pioneer.
Variety
[An] entertaining, nostalgic and well-organized documentary....Kempner creates a poignant reminder of one of the most influential, if now largely forgotten, great ladies of entertainment.
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
For more than 25 years, Gertrude Berg was one of the most beloved figures in American pop culture as the creator, writer, producer, and star of THE GOLDBERGS--first on radio (where it was originally known as THE RISE OF THE GOLDBERGS) and then on television. Berg, who was best known to the public in the identity of her character, Molly Goldberg, occupied a unique niche in the fabric of American life: throughout the 1930s, she and Eleanor Roosevelt competed annually in polls for the title of most prominent woman in America. Berg was called The First Lady of Radio at a time when radio was king; later on, in the television era, she invented the family sitcom as we came to know it, and did battle against the Red Scare and the Hollywood blacklist. Director Aviva Kempner's documentary gives an intimate and detailed a look at the life of Berg, who died in 1966 virtually forgotten by the executives of the industry that she helped build. In the process, Kempner explains how this woman--an articulate and intelligent first-generation Jewish-American with little formal background in writing and no knowledge of the media--rose to such success in just a few years, and why she was forgotten and swept aside almost as quickly at the other end of her career. Participants and interviewees include such admirers as producer Norman Lear, actor Edward Asner, and United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Keywords:
Live-Action
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Documentary
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Jewish Heritage
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Behind The Scenes
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1950s
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1940s
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Television Personalities
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1920s
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1930s
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Actresses
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Jewish
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20th Century
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- UPC: 767685225080
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