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Educated at Columbia University. He and his wife, Bella Spewack, were nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Kiss Me Kate performed at the Open Air Theatre for Outstanding Musical Production of 1997. He and his wife, Bella, were awarded the 2001 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Musical for Kiss Me Kate performed at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London, England. In 1949, won two Tony Awards for "Kiss Me, Kate" with his wife-collaborator Bella Spewack: as Best Authors (Musical) and for the book as part of the Best Musical Award. Date of Death: October 14, 1971 (age 72) in New York City, New York, USA
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2024
Kiss Me, Kate
Movie Musical
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2011
Kiss Me, Kate
Movie Book
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2003
Kiss Me, Kate
Movie Writer
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1989
We're No Angels
Movie Theatre Play
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1964
Kiss Me, Kate
Movie Writer
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1963
Move Over, Darling
Movie Story
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1959
Startime
TV show Theatre Play
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1958
Kiss Me, Kate
Movie Book
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1957
Mr. Broadway
Movie Writer
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1953
Kiss Me Kate
Movie Theatre Play
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1945
Week-End at the Waldorf
Movie Screenplay
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1943
A Welcome to Britain
Movie Writer
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1942
The World at War
Movie Writer
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1940
My Favorite Wife
Movie Screenplay
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1938
Three Loves Has Nancy
Movie Writer
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1938
Boy Meets Girl
Movie Screenplay
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1938
The Chaser
Movie Screenplay
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1937
Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938
Movie Writer
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1935
Rendezvous
Movie Adaptation
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1934
The Gay Bride
Movie Screenplay
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1934
The Cat and the Fiddle
Movie Screenplay
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1933
Should Ladies Behave
Movie Writer
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1933
The Solitaire Man
Movie Theatre Play
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1933
The Nuisance
Movie Adaptation
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1933
Private Jones
Movie Adaptation
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1933
Clear All Wires!
Movie Adaptation
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1931
The Secret Witness
Movie Novel
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1931
Caught
Movie Additional Dialogue