The Goldbergs TV 2 DVD Set Gertrude Berg (1949)

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The Goldbergs TV 2 DVD Set Gertrude Berg (1949)

The television version ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1951 and co-starred Philip Loeb as Jake Goldberg. He and Gertrude Berg reprised their roles in a 1950 film of the same name. The show almost didn't get to the small screen at all: CBS executives were uncertain that the show would work on television as well as it did on radio. Berg prevailed, however, and picked up General Foods as its sponsor.  The Goldbergs was destined to spend almost a decade on television---but not without disruptions. In 1950, Philip Loeb was blacklisted and pressure was placed on Berg (who owned the television version as she had the radio original) to fire him. When she refused, CBS dropped it from their schedule by June 1951.  Eight months later, however NBC---the show's original broadcasting home---picked up the series for the 1952-53 season (with another re-naming, to Molly, in due course), with Harold Stone and then Robert H. Harris replacing Loeb as Jake. The rest of the television cast included Eli Mintz as Uncle David, Tom Taylor as Sammy, Arlene McQuade as Rosalie, Betty Bendyke as Dora Barnett, Susan Steel as Daisy Carey, and Jon Lormer as Henry Carey. On radio, Sammy and Rosalie had grown up and gotten married; on television, the characters were revived as teenagers.

Gertrude Berg ............. Molly Goldberg
Philip Loeb ............... Jake Goldberg
Harold J. Stone ........... Jake Goldberg
Robert H. Harris .......... Jake Goldberg
Arlene McQuade ............ Rosalie Goldberg
Eli Mintz ................. Uncle David
Larry Robinson ............ Sammie Goldberg
Tom Taylor ................ Sammie Goldberg
Arnold Stang .............. Seymour
Betty Bendyke ............. Dora Barnett
Jon Lormer ................ Henry Carey
Susan Steel ............... Daisy Carey
Ruth Yorke ................ Carrie Barnett
Olga Fabian ............... Mrs. Bloom
Menasha Skulnik ........... Uncle David

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