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 (1948)
References
- ^ 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".