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Known For

Writing

Known Credits

30

Gender

-

Birthday

1899-03-25

Deathday

1990-04-27 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

Bucharest, Romania

Also Known As

  • Bella Cohen

Bella Spewack

Biography

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

We're No Angels
6.1%

We're No Angels

Jun 2, 1989

My Favorite Wife
6.9%

My Favorite Wife

May 17, 1940

My Favorite Wife
6.9%

My Favorite Wife

May 17, 1940

Move Over, Darling
6.5%

Move Over, Darling

Dec 19, 1963

Kiss Me Kate
6.4%

Kiss Me Kate

Nov 26, 1953

Vogues of 1938
5.3%

Vogues of 1938

Aug 18, 1937

The Gay Bride
5.8%

The Gay Bride

Dec 14, 1934

Rendezvous
4.8%

Rendezvous

Oct 25, 1935

The Cat and the Fiddle
6.9%

The Cat and the Fiddle

Feb 16, 1934

Three Loves Has Nancy
4.2%

Three Loves Has Nancy

Sep 2, 1938

Should Ladies Behave
4.3%

Should Ladies Behave

Dec 1, 1933

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Caught as Additional Dialogue

Writing

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