diff --git a/bin/pyspark b/bin/pyspark
index 39a20e2a24a3..c39eb62ce5a8 100755
--- a/bin/pyspark
+++ b/bin/pyspark
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ FWDIR="$(cd `dirname $0`/..; pwd)"
 # Export this as SPARK_HOME
 export SPARK_HOME="$FWDIR"
 
+source $FWDIR/bin/utils.sh
+
 SCALA_VERSION=2.10
 
 if [[ "$@" = *--help ]] || [[ "$@" = *-h ]]; then
@@ -67,9 +69,10 @@ fi
 # We export Spark submit arguments as an environment variable because shell.py must run as a
 # PYTHONSTARTUP script, which does not take in arguments. This is required for IPython notebooks.
 
+gatherSparkSubmitOpts $@
 PYSPARK_SUBMIT_ARGS=""
 whitespace="[[:space:]]"
-for i in "$@"; do
+for i in ${SUBMISSION_OPTS[@]}; do
   if [[ $i =~ \" ]]; then i=$(echo $i | sed 's/\"/\\\"/g'); fi
   if [[ $i =~ $whitespace ]]; then i=\"$i\"; fi
   PYSPARK_SUBMIT_ARGS="$PYSPARK_SUBMIT_ARGS $i"
@@ -90,7 +93,10 @@ fi
 if [[ "$1" =~ \.py$ ]]; then
   echo -e "\nWARNING: Running python applications through ./bin/pyspark is deprecated as of Spark 1.0." 1>&2
   echo -e "Use ./bin/spark-submit <python file>\n" 1>&2
-  exec $FWDIR/bin/spark-submit "$@"
+  primary=$1
+  shift
+  gatherSparkSubmitOpts $@
+  exec $FWDIR/bin/spark-submit ${SUBMISSION_OPTS[@]} $primary ${APPLICATION_OPTS[@]}
 else
   # Only use ipython if no command line arguments were provided [SPARK-1134]
   if [[ "$IPYTHON" = "1" ]]; then
diff --git a/bin/spark-shell b/bin/spark-shell
index 756c8179d12b..c30fd5cb8930 100755
--- a/bin/spark-shell
+++ b/bin/spark-shell
@@ -37,7 +37,10 @@ if [[ "$@" = *--help ]] || [[ "$@" = *-h ]]; then
   exit 0
 fi
 
-function main(){
+source $FWDIR/bin/utils.sh
+gatherSparkSubmitOpts $@
+
+function main() {
     if $cygwin; then
         # Workaround for issue involving JLine and Cygwin
         # (see http://sourceforge.net/p/jline/bugs/40/).
@@ -46,11 +49,11 @@ function main(){
         # (see https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/562).
         stty -icanon min 1 -echo > /dev/null 2>&1
         export SPARK_SUBMIT_OPTS="$SPARK_SUBMIT_OPTS -Djline.terminal=unix"
-        $FWDIR/bin/spark-submit --class org.apache.spark.repl.Main spark-shell "$@"
+        $FWDIR/bin/spark-submit --class org.apache.spark.repl.Main ${SUBMISSION_OPTS[@]} spark-shell ${APPLICATION_OPTS[@]}
         stty icanon echo > /dev/null 2>&1
     else
         export SPARK_SUBMIT_OPTS
-        $FWDIR/bin/spark-submit --class org.apache.spark.repl.Main spark-shell "$@"
+        $FWDIR/bin/spark-submit --class org.apache.spark.repl.Main ${SUBMISSION_OPTS[@]} spark-shell ${APPLICATION_OPTS[@]}
     fi
 }
 
diff --git a/bin/utils.sh b/bin/utils.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9c56b99488e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/utils.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+# Gather all all spark-submit options into SUBMISSION_OPTS
+function gatherSparkSubmitOpts() {
+  SUBMISSION_OPTS=()
+  APPLICATION_OPTS=()
+  while (($#)); do
+    case $1 in
+      --master | --deploy-mode | --class | --name | --jars | --py-files | --files)
+        ;&
+
+      --conf | --properties-file | --driver-memory | --driver-java-options)
+        ;&
+
+      --driver-library-path | --driver-class-path | --executor-memory | --driver-cores)
+        ;&
+
+      --total-executor-cores | --executor-cores | --queue | --num-executors | --archives)
+        if [[ $# -lt 2 ]]; then
+          usage
+          exit 1;
+        fi
+        SUBMISSION_OPTS+=($1); shift
+        SUBMISSION_OPTS+=($1); shift
+        ;;
+
+      --verbose | -v | --supervise)
+        SUBMISSION_OPTS+=($1); shift
+        ;;
+
+      *)
+        APPLICATION_OPTS+=($1); shift
+        ;;
+    esac
+  done
+
+  export SUBMISSION_OPTS
+  export APPLICATION_OPTS
+}
diff --git a/python/pyspark/java_gateway.py b/python/pyspark/java_gateway.py
index 37386ab0d7d4..c7f7c1fe591b 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/java_gateway.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/java_gateway.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def launch_gateway():
         submit_args = os.environ.get("PYSPARK_SUBMIT_ARGS")
         submit_args = submit_args if submit_args is not None else ""
         submit_args = shlex.split(submit_args)
-        command = [os.path.join(SPARK_HOME, script), "pyspark-shell"] + submit_args
+        command = [os.path.join(SPARK_HOME, script)] + submit_args + ["pyspark-shell"]
         if not on_windows:
             # Don't send ctrl-c / SIGINT to the Java gateway:
             def preexec_func():