Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

Kempner once again educates and entertains with unexpected tidbits and just plain good old-fashioned filmmaking.

Well-spoken but humorously self-deprecating, Berg admits that, between the hours spent writing, rehearsing and performing, she spends more of her life as Molly than she does as herself.

Berg was the pioneer for an indie TV entrepreneur like Lucille Ball.

Kempner has done everything right by organizing her bountiful material into a fascinating portrait of a worthy personality and her era and touching upon related issues like the impact of the blacklist and the alchemy of celebrity.

Celebratory but clear-eyed portrait of Gertrude Berg.

The documentary, like the series, is haimish in the extreme - cozy, warm, homey.

Listening to Berg's characters talk so naturally, honestly, and colorfully about the small, surmountable problems of their daily life is so engaging that whenever Kempner cuts away to another dry historian or fervent fan, it's doubly aggravating.