Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009) NYT Critics' Pick

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Gertrude Berg in a scene from "Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg."
July 10, 2009
So Listen, America, to Your Bighearted Jewish Mother
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: July 10, 2009

“The Oprah of her day” is one talking head’s description of the broadcasting pioneer Gertrude Berg in “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg,” Aviva Kempner’s engrossing documentary portrait of a once-beloved radio and television star who died in 1966 and today is barely remembered. The film could be described as Exhibit A in a study of media celebrity and collective forgetfulness in the age of information overload. More