Bella Spewack

Writer

March 25, 1899 — April 27, 1990 (91 years)
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

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Kiss Me, Kate
    Kiss Me, Kate2003

Known For

  • My Favorite Wife
    My Favorite Wife1940
  • We're No Angels
    We're No Angels1989
  • Kiss Me Kate
    Kiss Me Kate1953
  • Move Over, Darling
    Move Over, Darling1963
  • Rendezvous
    Rendezvous1935
  • Week-End at the Waldorf
    Week-End at the Waldorf1945
  • Boy Meets Girl
    Boy Meets Girl1938
  • The Cat and the Fiddle
    The Cat and the Fiddle1934
  • Naughty Marietta
    Naughty Marietta1935
  • Clear All Wires!
    Clear All Wires!1933
  • Three Loves Has Nancy
    Three Loves Has Nancy1938
  • The Nuisance
    The Nuisance1933
  • Kiss Me, Kate: The Musical
    Kiss Me, Kate: The Musical2024
  • Ford Startime
    Ford Startime1 season
  • Kiss Me, Kate
    Kiss Me, Kate1958
  • Mr. Broadway
    Mr. Broadway1957

Filmography

2003
1959
1957
1954
1945
Week-End at the Waldorf · as Screenplay
1940
My Favorite Wife · as Screenplay
1938
1938
Boy Meets Girl · as Screenplay
1938
The Chaser · as Screenplay
1937
1935
1934
The Gay Bride · as Screenplay
1934
The Cat and the Fiddle · as Screenplay
1933

2024
1989
We're No Angels · as Theatre Play
1971
1963
Move Over, Darling · as Story
1958
Kiss Me, Kate · as Book
1955
ITV Play of the Week · as Original Writer
1953
Kiss Me Kate · as Theatre Play
1948
Studio One · as Teleplay
1935
Rendezvous · as Adaptation
1933
The Solitaire Man · as Theatre Play
1933
The Nuisance · as Adaptation
1933
Clear All Wires! · as Theatre Play