Bella Spewack

Bella Spewack

  • Birthday: 1899-03-25
  • Deathday: 1990-04-27
  • Place of birth: Bucharest, Romania
  • Also know as: Bella Cohen

Biography

Credited with inventing the Girl Scout Cookie. She and Samuel Spewack was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Kiss Me Kate performed at the Open Air Theatre, for Outstanding Musical Production of 1997. With her husband, Sam Spewack and Cole Porter, their production of Kiss Me, Kate performed at the Victoria Palace Theatre was awarded the 2001 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Musical. In 1949, won two Tony Awards for "Kiss Me, Kate" with her husband-collaborator Sam Spewack: as Best Authors (Musical) and for the book as part of the Best Musical Award. After graduating from school, she worked as a journalist for socialist and pacifist newspapers, such as 'The New York Call'. Date of Death: 27 April 1990, Manhattan, New York, USA

Production

Kiss Me Kate

1953

As Theatre Play

My Favorite Wife

1940

As Screenplay

Three Loves Has Nancy

1938

As Writer

Rendezvous

1935

As Adaptation

Week-End at the Waldorf

1945

As Screenplay

The Cat and the Fiddle

1934

As Screenplay

Boy Meets Girl

1938

As Screenplay

Boy Meets Girl

1938

As Theatre Play

Vogues of 1938

1937

As Writer

Should Ladies Behave

1933

As Writer

The Solitaire Man

1933

As Theatre Play

The Gay Bride

1934

As Screenplay

Move Over, Darling

1963

As Story

Kiss Me, Kate

2011

As Book

Kiss Me Kate

2003

As Writer

The Nuisance

1933

As Dialogue

The Nuisance

1933

As Adaptation

The Chaser

1938

As Screenplay

Kiss Me Kate

1964

As Writer

Kiss Me, Kate

1958

As Book

Kiss Me, Kate

1958

As Writer

My Favorite Wife

1940

As Original Story

Move Over, Darling

1963

As Original Film Writer

We're No Angels

1989

As Theatre Play

Clear All Wires!

1933

As Theatre Play

Clear All Wires!

1933

As Adaptation

Mr. Broadway

1957

As Writer

Caught

1931

As Additional Dialogue

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