{"id":1634,"date":"2010-09-01T11:44:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2010-09-02T12:56:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T17:56:21","slug":"in-honor-of-philip-loebyoo-hoo-mrs-goldberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2010\/09\/01\/in-honor-of-philip-loebyoo-hoo-mrs-goldberg\/","title":{"rendered":"~IN HONOR OF PHILIP LOEB\/YOO-HOO, MRS GOLDBERG !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AN EVENING – IN HONOR OF – ACTOR PHILIP LOEB !! – TO-NITE: SEPT 1, 2010 \/ 6:30 PM
\nSPONSORED BY THE ACTOR’S EQUITY ASSOCIATION
\nat: THE MUSEUM of JEWISH HERITAGE – A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST – EDMOND J. SAFRA PLAZA
\n36 BATTERY PLACE – NEW YORK, NY <\/p>\n

DIRECTIONS: SUBWAY 4\/5 to BOWLING GREEN, walk west along Battery Place. SUBWAY R to WHITEHALL STREET, walk west along Battery Place to South Ferry, walk north along Battery Park\/State Street, turn left & walk west on Battery Place. <\/p>\n

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC <\/p>\n

IF YOU SAW THAT DELIGHTFUL & ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO BE HERALDED – DOCUMENTARY – ‘YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG’ – BY AVIVA KEMPNER – THEN YOU KNOW WHY – THIS EVENT HEADLINES ARTLOVERS TO-DAY !!<\/p>\n

. . . forget what you usually see on T.V. shows about the earliest T.V. sitcoms – LUCILLE BALL – did not<\/em> – initiate the genre. that’s just what they’d like you think. it was GERTRUDE BERG – who played Lower East Side matriarch – MRS. GOLDBERG – who actually kicked off the sitcom ball game !! though the show – didn’t time-travel – culturally – as well Lucille Ball’s – ‘I LOVE LUCY’ – maybe that was because – it was so topical – and therefore a little more prone to appear dated – as opposed to Lucy’s generalized and second generation slapstick comedy. in fact, if you even casually – follow Ms. Kempner’s documentary – which is very very lively, thoroughly entertaining and chockful of vintage clips – it’s not<\/em> a step too far to conclude that the producer, writer, and star of the show – Gertrude Berg – a native-born New Yorker – was not only the true mother of them all – but – an early blogger as well. well before there was a blogshere !! she was on the air – with her take !! <\/p>\n

A real multi-tasker, and thinker – not just a gifted comedian and entertainer – Gertrude Berg – stepped out of her home each morning – with the issues of the day on her mind – and a story to tell – fresh – for each day’s live broadcast. She absolutely generated her own whole show, and she did this day after day. Unlike Lucille – she had no outside writers – it was all Gertrude – 24\/7 and on point. She<\/em> wrote the scripts – that had the first T.V. audiences in stitches – as she brought ethnic immigrant life – the newcomers from the old country – who landed on New York’s Lower East Side – to life – for a vast new national T.V. audience – national<\/em> as in country-wide – even in the heartland – who had previously no real inkling of what was afoot in America’s biggest city. and along with the hilarious family ups and downs – she served up – gentle but insightful takes on the politics of the day and the world – New York City style !! <\/p>\n

probably – therefore – it comes – as no surprise – that her show got caught up in the national embarrassment – that we now so plainly see those sorry blacklisting days of the 40s and 50s to be. seeing the original clips – it’s hard to understand what antagonized these small-minded censors – so much. All of Gertrude Berg’s writing comes across as very gentle chiding – even when it touched on national issues. She wrote from such a heartfelt and truly concerned place. yet the co-star of the show – PHILIP BERG – who played JAKE GOLDBERG – Molly Goldberg’s husband on the show – and – therefore the first father knows best !! – took a heartbreaking fall for the gang – and was blacklisted. As Aviva Kempner details so poignantly in ‘Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg’ – it was for his union activities – and not for his role on the program per se – that got him into hot water. but he was forced from the show – signaling not only the beginning of the end of the show, but of his own life as well. Heartbroken and well – just plain broken – he took his own life on Sept 1, 1955. and the union activism that got him blacklisted ? – he was one of the first founder activists for an actor’s union – or – as it is called today – the Actors’ Equity Association – and so, no wonder they are the honoring sponsors of this event to-nite. the eve of Labor Day weekend and the 55th anniversary of his untimely death.<\/p>\n

I believe he jumped from a hotel window – he had been at the height of his acting career. as for the show, ‘Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg’ never found a replacement – for the depth of heart and warmth of humor he brought to the role -and it went off the air, rather unceremoniously, as Ms. Kempner notes – to be replaced by the more stylized and innocuous – ‘I LOVE LUCY’.<\/p>\n

excerpts of ‘Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg’ – along with other clips related to Philip Loeb and his career will be shown to-nite.<\/p>\n

to-nite’slive panel guests – honoring the memory of Philip Loeb will include:<\/p>\n

AVIVA KEMPNER, director, ‘Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg’
\nANNA BERGER, actress on ‘The Goldbergs’
\nPETER FREIDMAN, an actor who is writing a play about Loeb
\nDr. STEVE LOEB, Loeb’s grandnephew
\nDr. GLENN SMITH, a Loeb biographer
\nand JIM BROCHU, an actor, and playwright of ‘ZERO HOUR’.<\/p>\n

. . . and if you want to spend a really entertaining and thoughtful moment – on Labor Day weekend !! – check out – the official website for – Aviva Kempner’s – ‘Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg’ – and meet GERTRUDE BERG – the “most famous woman in America – you never heard of” – !! <\/p>\n

see: YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG !!<\/a><\/p>\n

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