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Bella (25 March 1899 – 27 April 1990) and Samuel Spewack (16 September 1899 – 14 October 1971) were a husband-and-wife writing team. Samuel, who also directed many of their plays, was born in Bachmut, Ukraine. [1]
Samuel Spewack was a Ukranian-born screenwriter and playwright who worked extensively with his wife, Bella. The couple wrote the libretto for Kiss Me, Kate, the first musical to win a Tony Award. Their best known straight play was My Three Angels, which was adapted as the film We're No Angels.
Bella Spewack, in collaboration with her husband Sam, is known for writing some of the most memorable works of musical theater history, including Leave It to Me (1938) and Kiss Me Kate (1948). The Spewacks also wrote screenplays for several 1940s Hollywood hits, such as Weekend at the Waldorf.
Samuel Spewack (1899-1971) and Bella Spewack (1899-1990) met while working as journalists and married in 1922. Bella’s youth was chronicled in Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side (1995, Feminist Press). Their first play, Solitaire Man, premiered in 1926.
Apr 4, 2019 · Perhaps it’s no surprise that the book of Kiss Me, Kate--full of romantic discord and backstage shenanigans--was penned by veteran husband-and-wife playwriting team Samuel and Bella Spewack. Theatrical lore holds that the couple, married 25 years but separated at the time of writing Kiss Me, Kate , reunited through their work on the piece ...
Apr 29, 1990 · Bella Spewack, co-author with her late husband, Samuel, of a string of wacky comedies for Broadway and film - including such hits as ''Boy Meets Girl'' and the Tony Award-winning ''Kiss Me,...
My Three Angels is a comedy play by Samuel and Bella Spewack. The play is based on the French play La Cuisine Des Anges by Albert Husson, and is their only play that is regularly performed in repertory theater.
