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Bella (25 March 1899 – 27 April 1990) and Samuel Spewack (16 September 1899 – 14 October 1971) were a writing team. Samuel, who also directed many of their plays, was born in Bachmut, Ukraine. [1] He attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City [2] and then received his degree from Columbia College.
Bella Spewack, in collaboration with her husband Sam, is known for writing some of the most memorable works of musical theater history. Spewack was born in Transylvania and lived an impoverished childhood in New York's Lower East Side.
Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Bella and Samuel Spewack. The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew and the conflict on and off-stage between Fred Graham, the show's director, producer, and star, and his leading lady, his ex-wife Lilli ...
Bella (25 March 1899 – 27 April 1990) and Samuel Spewack (16 September 1899 – 14 October 1971) were a husband-and-wife writing team. Quick Facts Samuel Spewack, Born ... Samuel Spewack
Jan 1, 2001 · Born in Transylvania in 1899, Bella Spewack arrived on the streets of New York’s Lower East Side when she was three. At twenty-two, while working as a reporter with her husband in Europe, she wrote a memoir of her childhood that was never published.
Bella Spewack was a Romanian-born screenwriter and playwright who worked extensively with her husband, Samuel. 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 was born on March 25, 1899 in Bucharest, Romania. She was a writer, known for My Favorite Wife (1940), Move Over, Darling (1963) and Week-End at the Waldorf (1945). She was married to Sam Spewack. She died on April 27, 1990 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
