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Samuel was born on September 16, 1899 in the Ukranian town of Bachmut, Russia, to Noel Spewack, a small businessman, and Sema Zelavetski. The family moved to New York City when Sam was very young.
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Originally published in “The Literary Digest” (December 10, 1921), this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, describes the trial of the Sacco and Vanzetti (Italian communist anarchists indicted for robbery and murder in Massachusetts, April 1920) and details the international public outrage that ensued when it appeared that the jury’s verdict was likely to be based on prejudice rather than on actual evidence. Sample passage: Both men had alibis supported by reputable witnesses. Sacco had been in the Italian Consul’s office in Boston upon the day of the crime, a clerk in the office testified. Vanzetti, so other witnesses swore, had spent that day selling fish in Plymouth, thirty-five miles away from South Braintree. Before their arrest neither of the men had been convicted of a crime. Sacco was a shoe worker and a watchman, and one employer testified to his honesty. Vanzetti had done menial work. Of late he had been peddling fish in the Italian colonies near Boston.
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Samuel was born on September 16, 1899 in the Ukranian town of Bachmut, Russia, to Noel Spewack, a small businessman, and Sema Zelavetski. The family moved to New York City when Sam was very young.
He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1916 and matriculated at Columbia University, but quit in 1918 to become a reporter for the New York World.
From 1922 to 1926 Spewack was a foreign correspondent, stationed first in Moscow (he was fluent in Russian) and then in Berlin. Although he concentrated on theatrical and movie writing for most of his career, he took up journalism again in the late 1940's for a major series in the New York Post describing the way in which Londoners responded to their experiences under fire during World War II.
The Spewacks gained fame as writing partners - but their first play, Swing High Sweeney, was not staged, and The Solitaire Man (1926) closed before reaching New York. However, Poppa (1928) had ninety-six Broadway performances. It was a comedydrama combining a political theme with Jewish life on New York's Lower East Side. Both ingredients, especially the former, would reappear in several later Spewack plays.
In 1928, the Spewacks cowrote the script of The War Song with George Jessel. In 1932, the Spewacks revised Swing High Sweeney as Clear All Wires! This loosely autobiographical satirical melodrama was set in Moscow (rare for an American play), and poked fun at foreign correspondents and the Communist bureaucracy. It lasted ninety-one performances. In 1938, the authors converted it into a hit musical (291 performances) called Leave It to Me!
Spewack preferred writing for the theater, however, because of its relative lack of censorship.
During World War II, Spewack served in Moscow as information officer to Ambassador Averell Harriman. The appointment was greeted with anxiety because of Spewack's jibes at the USSR's expense in Clear All Wires! He was hired after first serving in London as the Office of War Information's (OWI) motion-picture representative in London. In that capacity he wrote The World at War (1942), a grim wartime documentary produced by the OWI's Bureau of Motion Pictures. Spewack's other activities of the 1940's included his and Bella's excellent film scripts for My Favorite Wife (1940) and Weekend at the Waldorf (1945).
In 1949, Spewack wrote and directed Two Blind Mice, his first play written without Bella's participation. Starring Melvyn Douglas as a journalist, it tossed barbs at Washingtonian bureaucracy. Spewack had written three mystery novels in the 1920's under the pseudonym A. A. Abbott. Using his real name, he wrote The Busy, Busy People (1948), a satirical novel based on the observations he made about the black market while working in Moscow.
The Spewacks worked together on the scripts for various television shows, most notably their full-scale production adaptations of their own Kiss Me, Kate (1958), and My Three Angels (1960). The Enchanted Nutcracker (1963) was written especially for television.
Spewack died in New York City, several months before his fiftieth wedding anniversary.
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In 1922, he met and married his wife and future collaborator, the Bucharest-born Bella Cohen, a reporter for a socialist newspaper. The had no children.