Bella Spewack
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
WritingBirthday
March 25, 1899Deathday
April 27, 1990Gender
Not specifiedKnown Movie Credits
22Place of birth
Bucharest, RomaniaAlso known as
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Crew credits
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/phJTfsjxxi0a6ibYQ7SCACoTXDC.jpg)
Kiss Me Kate
Theatre Play![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/eRyGZiEWGn9bADSI5CXWMStBhMD.jpg)
My Favorite Wife
Screenplay, Original Story![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/mVcwFm3oW2nkAjv2RKLCG8wYYW0.jpg)
Three Loves Has Nancy
Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/4V2LqR3OsLwhxsOOKwOffWzyJI8.jpg)
Rendezvous
Adaptation![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/3W4gxPk730tRJxZG0d4sv2eNhdq.jpg)
Week-End at the Waldorf
Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/c8B5xDzHMH6snLK4uNCrybSfQKH.jpg)
The Cat and the Fiddle
Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/d5eGIYZKLHRCMthkiKwF8mNSnZh.jpg)
Boy Meets Girl
Screenplay, Theatre Play![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/nhrOyXnf3k1Vz4UQxMWmk3cYIx6.jpg)
Vogues of 1938
Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/z4rdns4xyRiZWM3F8pxxX5qZ6ot.jpg)
The Solitaire Man
Theatre Play![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/2RiV1amMM1CNLcTE7yVum3HsTEx.jpg)
Should Ladies Behave
Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/meND8vh12apZKZvmGl9hDBbcYiJ.jpg)
The Gay Bride
Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/4KrfjjGpOAXiMZyHlbSyklPa1eA.jpg)
Move Over, Darling
Story, Original Film Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/rwizsnSV18Z18TaIzDeghOMKoQw.jpg)
Kiss Me Kate
Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/m3LyAC5Yge4nT5Sv4pFxC0LzTn2.jpg)
The Nuisance
Adaptation, Dialogue![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/sJvyhND2zc1Cnlqdh43wApWVDcq.jpg)
The Chaser
Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/wubxqhD8q73SKNhtT0nbuwjjaKr.jpg)
Kiss Me Kate
Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/t64mP72LT2wx1cMGFJIRUXNLYzh.jpg)
Kiss Me, Kate
Book, Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/5XBVURkON7jyzxr0cONWeTbgAov.jpg)
We're No Angels
Theatre Play![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/eeh0fbrWDSOa0sk69gbTNhbskKu.jpg)
Clear All Wires!
Theatre Play, Adaptation![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/gx8XzNqmvKW7fAEvY2muM8B0wq2.jpg)
Mr. Broadway
Writer