
About
Bella Spewack
Overview
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
Writing |
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2024 | Kiss Me, Kate | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
2024 | Kiss Me, Kate | Writing | Musical | N/A N/A |
2011 | Kiss Me, Kate | Writing | Book | 59 Average |
2003 | Kiss Me, Kate | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1989 | We're No Angels | Writing | Theatre Play | 59 Average |
1964 | Kiss Me, Kate | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1963 | Move Over, Darling | Writing | Original Film Writer | 59 Average |
1963 | Move Over, Darling | Writing | Story | 59 Average |
1962 | Something's Got to Give | Writing | Story | 59 Average |
1958 | Kiss Me, Kate | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1958 | Kiss Me, Kate | Writing | Book | 59 Average |
1957 | Mr. Broadway | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1953 | Kiss Me Kate | Writing | Theatre Play | 59 Average |
1945 | Week-End at the Waldorf | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
1940 | My Favorite Wife | Writing | Screenplay | 61 Fair |
1940 | My Favorite Wife | Writing | Original Story | 61 Fair |
1938 | Three Loves Has Nancy | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1938 | Boy Meets Girl | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
1938 | Boy Meets Girl | Writing | Theatre Play | 59 Average |
1938 | The Chaser | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
1937 | Vogues of 1938 | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1935 | Rendezvous | Writing | Adaptation | 58 Average |
1934 | The Gay Bride | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
1934 | The Cat and the Fiddle | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
1933 | Should Ladies Behave | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1933 | The Solitaire Man | Writing | Theatre Play | 59 Average |
1933 | The Nuisance | Writing | Adaptation | 59 Average |
1933 | The Nuisance | Writing | Dialogue | 59 Average |
1933 | Clear All Wires! | Writing | Theatre Play | 59 Average |
1933 | Clear All Wires! | Writing | Adaptation | 59 Average |
Crew |
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1931 | Caught | Crew | Additional Dialogue | 59 Average |