Jack Goldberg Explained

Jack Goldberg was a vaudeville performer who became a producer of films for African American audiences.^[1] He ran Hollywood Pictures Corporation in New York City and produced at least two dozen films. His brother Bert Goldberg ran Harlemwood Pictures in Dallas, Texas.^[2] Goldberg was white. He married Mamie Smith.^[1]

He was a supervising producer of the 1932 film Harlem is Heaven. He produced the 1939 film Paradise in Harlem starring Mamie Smith, his wife.^[1] He founded Herald Pictures in 1946.^[1]

A New York Times reviewer characterized his 1944 film We've Come a Long, Long Way as a rambling testimonial.^[1]

Filmography

• Harlem is Heaven (1932), supervising producer
• Gig and Saddle (also known as Scandal of 1933) (1933)
• Paradise in Harlem (1939)
• Sunday Sinners (1940)
• We've Come a Long, Long Way^[3] (1944)
• Boy! What A Girl! (1947), the first of 11 Herald Pictures films^[4]
• Miracle in Harlem (1948)

Notes and References

1. Book: Weisenfeld, Judith. Hollywood be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949. November 20, 2007. University of California Press. 9780520227743. Google Books.
2. Web site: Negro Digest. November 20, 1945. Negro Digest Publishing Company. Google Books.
3. Book: Rollins, Peter C.. Hollywood As Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context. July 11, 2014. University Press of Kentucky. 9780813148649. Google Books.
4. Web site: Talk's Cheap, Action's Expensive - the Films of Robert L. Lippert. McGee. Mark Thomas.