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Word: bella (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that delayed the production half an hour but was more than deserved by all concerned. Calculated to delight the lovers of gay tunes and sprightly if at times questionable patter, the play offers fifteen songs, most of which do justice to their composer, and a laugh-packed book by Bella and Samuel Spewack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/18/1938 | See Source »

...guardsmen, acting five parts at once in one of their screen plays, generally giving the impression of being possessed of a legion of March hares. But when Boy Bruce Lester meets Girl Marie Wilson, an inclination to dawdle sets in. Both versions of Boy Meets Girl were written by Bella & Samuel Spewack. After much thought last week on the question, Was the play better on screen or stage? critics came to no concerted conclusion, felt sentimentally inclined to favor the Broadway version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

This is a very practical solution of the educational problem of your young blades. If they must see La Bella Rand, it's cheaper to pay a boy's tuition at Harvard for four years than to pay the check if he goes to a Broadway night club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

...property (Warners). Producer Abbott prefers to pick his plays out of the grab bag, or help write them himself, as he did Broadway (with Philip Dunning), Coquette (with Ann Preston Bridgers), Three Men On A Horse (with John Cecil Holm). He has produced plays by established authors, like the Bella & Samuel Spewack Boy Meets Girl, but his experience with warranted materials has not always been pleasant. Last year he presented Sweet River, an adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. It flopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...known models as Jaeckel's Betty Wyman, Lucky Strike's and Chesterfield's Ida Vollmar) and U. S. fashions but implies that a couturier may indeed be a forceful masculine fellow. The cinemadequate plot and up-to-date dialog are the expert work of Samuel and Bella Spewack (Boy Meets Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

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