Jack Goldberg
Jack Goldberg was a vaudeville performer who became a producer of films for African American audiences. 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. Goldberg was white. He married Mamie Smith. 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. He founded Herald Pictures in 1946. A ''New York Times'' reviewer characterized his 1944 film ''We've Come a Long, Long Way'' as a rambling testimonial. 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'' (1944) *''Boy! What A Girl!'' (1947), the first of 11 Herald Pictures films *''Miracle in Harlem ''Miracle in Harlem'' is a 1948 American musical melodrama film, ...
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Vaudeville
Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs or ballets. It became popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s, but the idea of vaudeville's theatre changed radically from its French antecedent. In some ways analogous to music hall from Victorian Britain, a typical North American vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Typ