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)
References
- ^ a b c d e Weisenfeld, Judith (November 20, 2007). Hollywood be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520227743 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Negro Digest". Negro Digest Publishing Company. November 20, 1945 – via Google Books.
- ^ Rollins, Peter C. (July 11, 2014). Hollywood As Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813148649 – via Google Books.
- ^ McGee, Mark Thomas. "Talk's Cheap, Action's Expensive - the Films of Robert L. Lippert".