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Oral history interview with Samuel Loebel and Bella Cohen Spewack, 1958.

Creator: Spewack, Samuel, 1899-1971
Project: Popular arts project.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 20 pages Sound recording 1 reel Sound recording (Memoirs of the of the Movies excerpts) 1 reel
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Authors, screenwriters; interviewees are married

Scope and Contents

Bella Spewack's early career as writer and publicity agent; work with Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls; Samuel Spewack's beginnings as correspondent for the WORLD, 1918-1926: reporters and speakeasies, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, foreign coverage; their collaboration on plays and screenwriting; Hollywood in the 1930s

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