Bella Spewack

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

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Birthday

1899-03-25 (91 years old)

Deathday

1990-04-27

Place of Birth

Bucharest, Romania

Bella Spewack

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 f...

Production

1953

Kiss Me Kate

as Theatre Play

1940

My Favorite Wife

as Screenplay

1935

Rendezvous

as Adaptation

1945

1934

1937

1938

Boy Meets Girl

as Screenplay

1938

Boy Meets Girl

as Theatre Play

1957

Mr. Broadway

as Writer

1931

Caught

as Additional Dialogue

1933

The Solitaire Man

as Theatre Play

1934

The Gay Bride

as Screenplay

1940

My Favorite Wife

as Original Story

1963

1989

We're No Angels

as Theatre Play

1933

Clear All Wires!

as Theatre Play

1933

Clear All Wires!

as Adaptation

2011

2003

Kiss Me, Kate

as Writer

1933

The Nuisance

as Adaptation

1933

The Nuisance

as Dialogue

1938

The Chaser

as Screenplay

1964

Kiss Me, Kate

as Writer

1958

1958

Kiss Me, Kate

as Writer

2024

Kiss Me, Kate

as Musical

2024

Kiss Me, Kate

as Writer

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