Also credited on2 works
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- I knew Cole had come through brilliantly. I knew what I had done and what Sam [co-librettist and spouse Samuel Spewack] had done was right. We had nothing to change. I knew it so I didn’t have to be superstitious. In the history of American musicals this is the only one where they didn’t have to touch a scene or a song. In rehearsals, cha…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- 48 . Hamm, “Theatre Guild Production,” 495–532. Samuel Spewack and Bella Spewack, Kiss Me, Kate , anthologized in Richards, Great Musicals , 273.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- With a book distantly related to their own play, Clear All Wires, Bella and Samuel Spewack came up with a spoof of Communism and U.S. diplomacy that offered comedian Victor Moore one of his meatiest roles as mild-mannered Alonzo P. “Stinky” Goodhue. Goodhue is unwillingly named Ambassador to the Soviet Union because his ambitious wife (So…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Samuel Spewack, produced by Vinton Freedley, directed by Samuel Spewack, choreography by Robert Alton, and starring William Gaxton, Victor Moore, Sophie Tucker, and Tamara.theatre-pdfs/Mary Martin-Broadway Legend (Ronald L. Davis).txt
- nomenon of musicals that never quite faded. A few examples are Gay Divorce (1932; book by Dwight Taylor, music and lyrics by Cole Porter), based on an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners; Roberta (1933; book and lyrics by Otto Harbach, music by Jerome Kern), based on a novel. Gowns by Roberta, by Alice Duer Miller; I Married An Angel (1…theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
- Kiss Me, Kate (1948). Book: Bella and Samuel Spewack; music: Cole Porter. Musical comedy, a playwithin-a-play, in which Fred Graham and Lilli Vanessi, though divorced, costar in a Shakespearean troupe's production of The Taming of the Shrew. Quickly they realize they are still in love, and as the play shifts from presentday Baltimore to t…theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
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