The Goldbergs on the Radio: Ep. 1504
Sign in to track this film in your collection or want list.
Description:
The Goldbergs: Episode 1504. Date: July 1, 1943. Cast: Gertrude Berg (Molly Goldberg); James R. Waters (Jake Goldberg); Roslyn Silber (Rosalie Goldberg); Alfred Ryder (Sammy Goldberg); Menasha Skulnik (Uncle David).
Announcer introduction: "Rosie Goldberg has twisted and turned, plotted and planned, opposed her parents and defied them... all for one purpose: to expose the relation between her sister-in-law Grace and a neighbor named George... Right now, Rosie is pretending to be in love with George herself... and is using this as an excuse for not turning over to Grace the college money which Grace and George have been after. But George is also changing under pressure, although the Goldbergs are more than ever hoodwinked by their daughter-in-law... Right now Grace is supposed to be over talking George out of a love affair with Rosie... while here at home... Molly is puzzled... Listen..."
Announcer close: "Two great surprises... One about Grace's child... the other for Molly who can't understand that George's advice is based on a desire to help Rosie and is not selfishness... yet Jake and Molly will take it to mean just the opposite..."
A hallmark of the golden age of radio, The Goldbergs (1929-1946) was one of the earliest entertainment programs to authentically explore Jewish life in America. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
Complete Record: The Goldbergs: Episode 1504. Date: July 1, 1943. Cast: Gertrude Berg (Molly Goldberg); James R. Waters (Jake Goldberg); Roslyn Silber (Rosalie Goldberg); Alfred Ryder (Sammy Goldberg); Menasha Skulnik (Uncle David). Announcer introduction: "Rosie Goldberg has twisted and turned, plotted and planned, opposed her parents and defied them... all for one purpose: to expose the relation between her sister-in-law Grace and a neighbor named George... Right now, Rosie is pretending to be in love with George herself... and is using this as an excuse for not turning over to Grace the college money which Grace and George have been after. But George is also changing under pressure, although the Goldbergs are more than ever hoodwinked by their daughter-in-law... Right now Grace is supposed to be over talking George out of a love affair with Rosie... while here at home... Molly is puzzled... Listen..." Announcer close: "Two great surprises... One about Grace's child... the other for Molly who can't understand that George's advice is based on a desire to help Rosie and is not selfishness... yet Jake and Molly will take it to mean just the opposite..." A hallmark of the golden age of radio, The Goldbergs (1929-1946) was one of the earliest entertainment programs to authentically explore Jewish life in America. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
Transcription
you is anybody there's Molly folks that means your friends The Goldbergs are here brought to you by doz the new kind of soap for everything in your wash first let's drop in on the doam family there's PA and Dicky doam in the kitchen doing dishes PA's saying you know Dicky Ma's going to bake us a pie just cuz we're doing the dishes yeah you see Dicky if you want women to appreciate you you got to help them out now and then gosh if helping means doing dishes with do that's a sense well like M says do does everything in the wash and has everything for dishes too you said it Dicky this new kind of soap makes Suds that stand up till the last dishes done and cuts grease like 60 yet ma says it's kinder to her hands gee wished we had had do when I was cting your ma did you help Ma do dishes then sure sure usually got a kiss for it too Marsh well you see Dicky dishwashing was harder then the suds had fall flat not like these do Suds that stand up even through the greasy pans you don't have to keep adding do either bet you never had nothing like doz for cutting grease what does does it in less than half a minute yep but back in those days I had to do lots of Hard scouring for your M wanted to help save her pretty hands got an extra kiss for that too mush of course now with does things are different cuz do being kinder to her hands it sort of cut me out of that extra kiss but it sure leaves Ma's hands nice and smooth you know PA yeah I guess I'll take your advice about helping women and getting appreciated why aiming for a kiss from Susie next door gosh no but you see she's got some swirl new marbles maybe if I help her does the dishes she'll well dozen dishes always pays compared to other leading granulated wash day soaps does is the only one of them that gives you all this makes studs that stand up till the last dish is done Cuts grease like 60 yet it's kinder to your hands change to does du Z it has everything for dishes and now the Goldbergs well Rosie Goldberg has Twisted and turned plotted and planned opposed her parents and defied them all for one purpose to expose the relation between her sister-in-law Grace and a neighbor named George right now Rosie is pretending to be in love with George herself and is using this as an excuse for not turning over to Grace the college money which Grace and George have been after but George is also changing Under Pressure although the Goldbergs are more than ever Hoodwinked by their sister-in-law right now Grace is supposed to be over talking George out of a love affair with Rosie while here at home Molly is puzzled listen Jake Jake you advise me George wants to speak to me Grace went over to speak to him you're my mother you go over and speak to George he wants to speak about us go over and speak to him M Rosie Don't Let Me Lose Myself Jake please how can you stand and listen huh how Rosy please this is for Papa and for me to decide you mean it's for Grace to decide why is Grace over there speaking to George why is Grace called in on everything important every important decision in my life just because she mared married Sammy because she's Sammy's wife George called you Ma he said he wanted to speak to you maybe perhaps we don't want to speak to him did that ever occur to you no that never occurred to me because you're my parents not anymore why not anymore then you never love me quiet if you can stop loving me just because I'm in love with just because you did what you are doing yes just because don't Jake me but what did I do you deceived your mother and your father I kept what was mine yours mine in Mama's hard because it was hard earn money then it should go where it will do the most good and you think that giving the money to Grace for her to give to her sister is the best possible use yes a thousand times better than it should go to you and and the man I love Molly Hold Me Back Rosal exit Jake the man she loves huh who is this man you love who is this woman that Sammy loved and married who is she why didn't you take the trouble to find out we know who she is who she speaks so much about her sister and the trouble she's in did Grace ever get a letter from this sister what are you why do you have to know more about George than you did about Grace that's all I'm saying wait Rie why are you saying this and why do you always say it because I what are you trying to tell me if it's something say it I only want you to go over and speak to George and ask him if he loved me and what he wants to do with my money and I want you to tell me I'll wait till Grace comes back M go now please go M Jake go now go after go when you please don't ask me while Rosie tries in every possible way to force the issue at home Grace is being her own kind of Ambassador with George they're talking about what concerns the gold Goldbergs but the big sister attitude of Grace has been dropped somewhere on the way over and the two who face each other are not quite what Molly and Jake think they are here comes Mrs Goldberg does she see us no she's going into marshes get your hands off me Grace why can't you see this thing my way because you're balling everything up and spoiling everything I don't want you to spoil everything Grace I want that kid of ours to be proud of me and proud of you all right all right we've been a couple of heels up to now we know all the reasons why it was all right to take and want what the other fellow had it's been easy pickings we've both been a couple of smart Crooks but but what we haven't got a nickel what are you going to give the kid well I can work in I can you why not because you never did well I will now I've got something to work for and just now when everything is coming to aead we can spoil the whole future if we get caught I don't want this kind of life for us anymore Grace all right let this be the last job we do nothing doing gra why you think if you quit now it'll make you pure and virtuous we quit now or or what you wouldn't dare tell her how do you know CU you know what'll happen to you and you too you wouldn't want the baby to be born in a prison would you Grace what kind of a life will we have if we don't go through with this what have we got nothing nothing at all we don't need anything but each other for the kind of life I want to Le oh now you're being a kid people don't like us get the break we have to make them and we're making a good break for us now if we get our hands on that money we're all set we can get the things we need to start off right you mean start off wrong it's all wrong Grace don't tell me you're getting soft-hearted no I'm getting hard-headed I'm beginning to see that the easy way is the hardest way after all it's the way that makes you pay the most for the least if we're caught Grace we're finished through all washed up living from hand to mouth never does that to you you always have hope you can always do something to help yourself but if we're caught now there'll be nothing to hope for there'll be nothing we can do to help ourselves you've got to see that I won't quit now I won't no matter what I won't Mrs Goldberg George George Mrs Goldberg I was looking for you in the house and by MH I was looking for you Grace dear you you look very fatigued you you look very tired yes sir why don't you go home yes darling go go Grace I I want to talk to George private and personal Go Darling lie down a little bit and and take something Go Darling be very careful go go go the short way go across the short way darling George you you called me on the telephone you you said you wanted to speak to me I I suppose my daughter-in-law Grace told you how he feel George you're a man already in the years rosle is a child all right she she likes you she she thinks she likes you I'm I'm sure this is this is all foolishness to you I mean all things taken into consideration she's she's still a how shall I say it she's a child in her in her teens and she she's not even not not high school yet George all right you you toled for her with a horn and you took her to school in the milk truck and she went to the movies with you and of course this is a lenbury lenbury is not like New York City I mean it's a it's a little a little town and how many boys this is a girl like rosely see and excuse me you you're very handsome and so so so she likes you she she thinks she likes you but I'm sure it's it's all foolishness to you George all things taken into consideration and and I know Rosie do does a mama not know her own child she'll she'll get over it these things happen and if it wasn't for for my daughter-in-law Grace who who is in a crisis and she's also in a condition and you know Jo my family is in the Army now so we feel we feel a double responsibility my family was home he would take care of his wife now I have to be a mother-in-law I have to be a husband Mr goldber and me so we promis to to help Grace help us sister her sister is in a critical crisis and the money that Mr Goldberg and myself from from pennies to pennies and dollars when we had it over many years we put it in an insurance policy we saved it for rosaly for college because I like education we thought she would go to college then rosley promised she would give it to Grace now Rosy wants to keep it she says for herself and for you I think George if if you tell rosley that this is all foolishness childish foolishness and tell her to give her money to Grace she will George you heard me you you heard well what I said yeah yeah I heard well will you tell her yes what will you tell her I'll tell her to keep her money that's what I want her to do keep it so two great surprises one about Grace's child the other for Molly who can't understand that George's advice is based on a desire to help Rosie and is not selfishness yet Jake and Molly will take it to mean just the opposite you know Molly Goldberg is a wonderful mother isn't she always so patient believe me it takes plenty of patience to handle Young Folks take Daisy dozen for instance what a girl why she asked me do you believe in fate why Daisy well ma sent me over to the new neighbors with some does and there he was my dream man tall dark and a senior and High School it was doz and fate that brought us together well Daisy lots of ladies thank the Fate that brought them and doz together you see this new kind of soap does everything in the wash overalls towels to pretty rayon unies why does is the only leading granulated wash day soap that gives longer life to the colors you wash plus unsurpassed whiteness for towels and real cleaning power for the dirtiest clothes even in the toughest wash does does everything and remember does like all soaps contains vitally needed War materials so don't waste doz always measure it carefully into your machine see to it every bit of do you use does more be sure to listen to the next episode of The Goldbergs Jake explodes and a real sense of danger sweeps Over The Goldberg house this is Clayton ker speaking for Proctor and Gamble and saying do as the dohms do let doz the new kind of soap do everything in your wash
1 user has this film:
UCLA Film & Television Archive
No related films.
Original permalink · Record added: 2025-07-12 18:00:15