Samuel and Bella Spewack
| Samuel and Bella Spewack | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | husband-and-wife writing team |
| Awards | Tony Award (1949) |
| Samuel Spewack | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 16, 1899 Ukraine |
| Died | 14 October 1971 (aged 72) |
| Alma mater | Columbia College |
| Spouse(s) | Bella Cohen (1922－1971, his death) |
| Bella Cohen | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 25, 1899 Bucharest, Romania |
| Died | 27 April 1990 (aged 91) |
| Alma mater | Washington Irving High School |
| Spouse(s) | Samuel Spewack (1922－1971, his death) |
Samuel (September 16, 1899 – October 14, 1971) and Bella Spewack (March 25, 1899 – April 27, 1990) were a husband-and-wife writing team.
Samuel, who also directed many of their plays, was born in Ukraine. He attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City and then received his degree from Columbia College.
His wife, the oldest of three children of a single mother, was born Bella Cohen in Bucharest, Romania and with her family emigrated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan when she was a child. After graduation from Washington Irving High School, she worked as a journalist for socialist and pacifist newspapers such as The New York Call. Her work drew attention from Samuel, working as a reporter for The World, and the couple married in 1922. Shortly afterwards, they departed for Moscow, where they worked as news correspondents for the next four years.
After returning to the United States, they settled in New Hope, Pennsylvania. In the latter part of the decade, Samuel wrote several novels, including Mon Paul, The Skyscraper Murder, and The Murder in the Gilded Cage, on his own, while the pair collaborated on plays. The two wrote several plays and screenplays for mostly B-movies throughout the 1930s, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story for My Favorite Wife in 1940. They also penned a remake of Grand Hotel, entitled Week-End at the Waldorf (1945), which starred Ginger Rogers.
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