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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]
Oct 15, 1971 · Samuel Spewack, co‐author with his wife, Bella, of a long string of comedies for Broad way and films; including the hit musical “Kiss Me, Kate,” died yesterday of blood cancer at Mount Sinai...
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.
(1899-1971) Playwright. Samuel Spewack was born in Ukraine and died in New York City. He and his wife, Bella Spewack, were a writing team.
Samuel Spewack was a journalist, novelist, stage and screen writer, and documentary film maker. He began his career as a reporter for the New York World, which sent him and his wife, Bella, to Moscow as news correspondents.
Samuel Spewack. 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.
