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Equal parts edification and entertainment, Kempner's tender tribute to a forgotten pioneer of American entertainment is both richly deserved and long overdue.
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It is only in the sequence about Berg's popular costar Philip Loeb that Aviva Kempner's documentary resonates. Dec 16, 2009 | Full Review…
It is only in the sequence about Berg's popular costar Philip Loeb that Aviva Kempner's documentary resonates.
Andrea Gronvall
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. Nov 4, 2009 | 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.
Roger Moore
Charming. Oct 16, 2009 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Charming.
Liam Lacey
History has been unfair to Berg, a fact that filmmaker Aviva Kempner hopes to correct with this illuminating documentary. Oct 16, 2009 | Full Review…
History has been unfair to Berg, a fact that filmmaker Aviva Kempner hopes to correct with this illuminating documentary.
Jason Anderson
We're left with an impression of a vivacious pioneer; but warm shouldn't have to mean fuzzy. Aug 27, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/4
We're left with an impression of a vivacious pioneer; but warm shouldn't have to mean fuzzy.
Joe Williams
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. Aug 14, 2009 | 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.
Carrie Rickey
Aviva Kempner's documentary is a real eye-opener on an influential woman whose once central place in American popular has been mostly forgotten. Sep 4, 2010 | Full Review…
Aviva Kempner's documentary is a real eye-opener on an influential woman whose once central place in American popular has been mostly forgotten.
Sean Axmaker
Gertrude Berg was the Queen of All Media long before Howard Stern ever dreamed about being King. Aug 27, 2010 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Gertrude Berg was the Queen of All Media long before Howard Stern ever dreamed about being King.
Christopher Long
Berg's professional story is worthy enough to be retold, although one wishes for something a little more emotionally compelling. Aug 25, 2010 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Berg's professional story is worthy enough to be retold, although one wishes for something a little more emotionally compelling.
David Cornelius
Kempner has made The Goldbergs informative, entertaining, poignant, and ... nostalgic. A piece of history has been saved. Apr 30, 2010 | Full Review…
Kempner has made The Goldbergs informative, entertaining, poignant, and ... nostalgic. A piece of history has been saved.
Emily S. Mendel
A remarkable story, all the more remarkable for the era in which it happened, an era when most women had almost no opportunities to become famous, rich and powerful. Gertrude Berg not only triumphed during this time, she was the Oprah Winfrey of her time. Nov 26, 2009 | Rating: B | Full Review…
A remarkable story, all the more remarkable for the era in which it happened, an era when most women had almost no opportunities to become famous, rich and powerful. Gertrude Berg not only triumphed during this time, she was the Oprah Winfrey of her time.
Robert Roten
It's puzzling that a paean to Gertrude Berg's Jewish New York housewife, Mrs. Goldberg -- a character so beloved and enduring that she could serve as a travel guide through early-to-mid-20th-century history -- could fall so flat. Oct 30, 2009 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
It's puzzling that a paean to Gertrude Berg's Jewish New York housewife, Mrs. Goldberg -- a character so beloved and enduring that she could serve as a travel guide through early-to-mid-20th-century history -- could fall so flat.
Justin Strout
"Yoo-Hoo, Mrs, Goldberg" is a charming and informative documentary about Getrude Berg, nee Tilly Edelstein, who was not only the star of "The Goldbergs," an immensely popular sitcom that originated on the radio, but also wrote the scripts in the days before word processors and computers with bad handwriting that puts my atrocious handwriting to shame.(One interviewee refers to her as the Oprah of her time.) What's especially noteworthy about "The Goldbergs" is that it is the prototypical family sitcom, influencing many sitcoms in the years to come.(Norman Lear is on hand to testify to this.) Although, to be honest, any television series that lasts for any period of time will have rising stars passing through at some point. "The Goldbergs" not only has an important place in television history but also in the current events of the times by presenting a Jewish family in New York City without stereotypes in a time of growing anti-semitism in the 1930's. And the television program would be adversely affected by the Blacklist of the 1950's, despite its huge popularity. Sadly enough, "The Goldbergs" has faded somewhat from memory as it has not found a new audience with younger generations which hopefully this fine documentary helps to rectify.
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