[1] Gertrude Berg created House of Glass soon after her previous show, The Goldbergs, was canceled by NBC.

"[2] Berg's father operated a resort hotel in the Catskill Mountains,[4] which gave her the background for recurring characters in House of Glass -- particularly the head waiter, the bellboy, and the dish washer.

Her primary methods of doing so were shopping and chatting with residents on the Lower East Side of New York City and attending meetings of a women's club in that neighborhood.

[2]: 68 Berg had four roles — star, producer, director, and writer — with House of Glass[2]: 65  Characters and the actors who portrayed them are shown in the table below.

[11] Berg created an original sketch of House of Glass and performed it on NBC's "first official television broadcast" in 1940.