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Bella Spewack

Writer, Additional Credits
Born March 25, 1899Died 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

Known For

  • My Favorite Wife
  • We're No Angels
  • Kiss Me Kate
  • Move Over, Darling
  • Rendezvous
  • The Cat and the Fiddle
  • Week-End at the Waldorf
  • Naughty Marietta
  • The Nuisance
  • Three Loves Has Nancy
  • Clear All Wires!
  • Mr. Broadway

Filmography

2003
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

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