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Bella Spewack

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Bella Spewack · Arts & Literature

What

With husband Samuel wrote Kiss Me, Kate and My Favorite Wife

When

1899, Bucharest, Romania — 1990, New York City, USA

Where

Romania · United States

Biography

Bella Spewack is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — With husband Samuel wrote Kiss Me, Kate and My Favorite Wife

How & why

Spewack was a Romanian-born American playwright and screenwriter who, with her husband Samuel Spewack, wrote the book for the Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate (Tony Award) and the film My Favorite Wife. She was born into a Jewish family in Bucharest and emigrated as a child to New York's Lower East Side.

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With husband Samuel wrote Kiss Me, Kate and My Favorite Wife

1948

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters