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Jack Goldberg

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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]

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Negro Digest". Negro Digest Publishing Company. November 20, 1945 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Rollins, Peter C. (July 11, 2014). Hollywood As Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813148649 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ McGee, Mark Thomas. "Talk's Cheap, Action's Expensive - the Films of Robert L. Lippert".