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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 (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.
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.
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).
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.
Samuel Spewack, 1899-1971 (Columbia College B.A., 1919) and Bella Cohen Spewack, (1899-1990), were authors of Broadway plays and musicals, novels, short stories, and articles. They were also foreign correspondents for Europe and Russia for the New York World, 1919-1926, and the New York Herald Tribune, 1922-1926, respectively. Subject Headings
Sam Spewack — The Movie Database (TMDB) Biography. Educated at Columbia University. He and his wife, Bella Spewack, were nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Kiss Me Kate performed at the Open Air Theatre for Outstanding Musical Production of 1997.
