Bella Spewack
Nacimiento : 1899-03-25, Bucharest, Romania
Muerte : 1990-04-27
Historia
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
Book
The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the conflict on and off-stage between Fred Graham, the show's director, producer, and star, and his leading lady, his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi. A secondary romance concerns Lois Lane, the actress playing Bianca, and her gambler boyfriend, Bill, who runs afoul of some gangsters. Television broadcast of the 2008 Komische Oper production.
Writer
Cole Porter's beloved classic receives "Another Op'nin, Another Show", in this masterful 1999 London revival of the Tony Award winning musical Kiss Me, Kate! When the egotistical Fred Graham mounts a musical adaptation of The Taming of The Shrew (with himself as director, producer, and star) he’s got the perfect leading lady in mind: his movie star ex-wife! The fireworks both onstage and off between the two seem destined to explode the entire production…or will a romantic flame that’s Too Darn Hot be rekindled? With backstage shenanigans, gangsters brushing up their Shakespeare, and a collection of Porter tunes that any Tom, Dick, or Harry will love, Kiss Me, Kate remains an all-time favorite of musical fans from Padua to Peoria.
Theatre Play
En una prisión norteamericana, cerca de la frontera con Canadá, un peligroso criminal está a punto de ser ejecutado. Sin embargo, unos minutos antes, logra escapar con otros dos reos. Rápidamente se organiza su búsqueda, pero sus dos compañeros consiguen llegar a una pequeña ciudad fronteriza, donde son confudidos con una pareja de sacerdotes de Arizona y recibidos con los brazos abiertos por la comunidad religiosa local.
Writer
Abridged version of the classic Cole Porter musical.
Original Film Writer
Tras perder a su mujer Helen (Doris Day) en un accidente aéreo cinco años atrás, Nicholas (James Garner) pide al juez el certificado oficial de defunción para poder casarse de nuevo, pero Helen aparece el mismo día que el nuevo matrimonio inicia su viaje de novios. Versión-remake de "Mi mujer favorita" (My Favorite Wife, 1940), protagonizada por Cary Grant e Irene Dunne.
Story
Tras perder a su mujer Helen (Doris Day) en un accidente aéreo cinco años atrás, Nicholas (James Garner) pide al juez el certificado oficial de defunción para poder casarse de nuevo, pero Helen aparece el mismo día que el nuevo matrimonio inicia su viaje de novios. Versión-remake de "Mi mujer favorita" (My Favorite Wife, 1940), protagonizada por Cary Grant e Irene Dunne.
Writer
Abridged version of the classic Cole Porter musical as broadcast live on the Hallmark Hall of Fame series on NBC
Book
Abridged version of the classic Cole Porter musical as broadcast live on the Hallmark Hall of Fame series on NBC
Theatre Play
Los esfuerzos de una pequeña compañía de musicales para poner en escena una versión de 'La fierecilla domada' de Shakespeare quedan en suspense hasta el día del estreno, en el que las vidas de los actores se entrecruzarán con las de los personajes de ficción.
Screenplay
Un famoso corresponsal de guerra se introduce en la habitación de una estrella de cine; un soldado se enamora de una joven taquígrafa a la caza de un hombre rico; un estafador quiere hacer negocio con un jeque millonario; un periodista busca una exclusiva; un director de orquesta pierde a su cantante principal... Nada más normal un fin de semana en el más prestigioso de los hoteles de Nueva York, el Waldorf Astoria.
Original Story
Ellen Wagstaff Arden (Irene Dunne), a quien habían declarado legalmente muerta tras su desaparición siete años antes en un naufragio en las costas de Indochina, vuelve con su amado esposo Nick (Cary Grant). El problema consiste en que él acaba de casarse con Bianca (Gail Patrick). Ellen intenta que Nick vuelva con ella antes de que emprenda su viaje de luna de miel. Pero la situación se complica aún más, cuando Nick descubre que Ellen ha estado siete años en una isla desierta con el masculino Stephen Burkett (Randolph Scott). (FILMAFFINITY)
Screenplay
Ellen Wagstaff Arden (Irene Dunne), a quien habían declarado legalmente muerta tras su desaparición siete años antes en un naufragio en las costas de Indochina, vuelve con su amado esposo Nick (Cary Grant). El problema consiste en que él acaba de casarse con Bianca (Gail Patrick). Ellen intenta que Nick vuelva con ella antes de que emprenda su viaje de luna de miel. Pero la situación se complica aún más, cuando Nick descubre que Ellen ha estado siete años en una isla desierta con el masculino Stephen Burkett (Randolph Scott). (FILMAFFINITY)
Writer
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Theatre Play
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
Screenplay
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
Screenplay
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
Writer
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plot centers around a chic boutique, whose owner, George Curson (Warner Baxter), tries hard to please his customers while keeping peace with his unhappy wife. A wealthy young woman, Wendy Van Klettering (Joan Bennett), decides to take a job as a model at the fashion house, just to amuse herself, but her presence annoys Curson, who must put together the best possible show to compete with rival fashion houses at the Seven Arts Ball. The film includes several hit songs, including the Oscar-nominated "That Old Feeling" by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown.
Adaptation
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Screenplay
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
Screenplay
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
Writer
A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter. Director Harry Beaumont's pre-code comedy stars Lionel Barrymore, Alice Brady, Godfrey Tearle, Mary Carlisle, William Janney, Katharine Alexander and Halliwell Hobbes.
Theatre Play
An almost-retired jewel thief plans to marry Helen, his partner in crime. Their plans are shattered when Bascom, a gang member, arrives with a stolen necklace, putting their whole gang at risk.
Dialogue
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Adaptation
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Adaptation
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
Theatre Play
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
