Bella Spewack

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Birthday 1899-03-25

Deathday 1990-04-27 (91 years old)

Place of Birth Bucharest, Romania

Also Known As Bella Cohen

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 for socialist and pacifist newspapers, such as 'The New York Call'. Date of Death: 27 April 1990, Manhattan, New York, USA

Known For

Writer

2024
Kiss Me, Kate

as Musical

2024
Kiss Me, Kate

as Writer

2011
2003
Kiss Me, Kate

as Writer

1989
We're No Angels

as Theatre Play

1964
Kiss Me, Kate

as Writer

1963
1963
Move Over, Darling

as Original Film Writer

1958
1958
Kiss Me, Kate

as Writer

1957
Mr. Broadway

as Writer

1953
Kiss Me, Kate

as Theatre Play

1945
1940
My Favorite Wife

as Screenplay

1940
My Favorite Wife

as Original Story

1938
1938
Boy Meets Girl

as Screenplay

1938
Boy Meets Girl

as Theatre Play

1938
The Chaser

as Screenplay

1937
Vogues of 1938

as Writer

1935
Rendezvous

as Adaptation

1934
1934
The Gay Bride

as Screenplay

1933
The Solitaire Man

as Theatre Play

1933
1933
Clear All Wires!

as Theatre Play

1933
Clear All Wires!

as Adaptation

1933
The Nuisance

as Adaptation

1933
The Nuisance

as Dialogue

Crew

1931
Caught

as Additional Dialogue