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Adolph Green (December 2, 1914 – October 23, 2002) was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for musicals on Broadway and in Hollywood.
Betty Comden and Adolph Green were an American musical-comedy team who wrote scripts—and often the lyrics—for many Broadway shows and Hollywood film musicals. They were paired together longer than any other writing team in the history of Broadway. Comden studied dramatics at New York University.
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Comden and Green was a 60-year songwriting partnership, comprising Betty Comden (1917–2006) and Adolph Green (1914–2002). [1] They first worked together in 1941 at the Village Gate in New York City, as writers and performers in a nightclub act called The Revuers. [2]
Oct 27, 2002 · Green, one of the last great figures of Broadway's Golden Age, composed lyrics and musical librettos that sang and danced him into the nation's dream life. He made harmony and banished gravity...
Oct 25, 2002 · Adolph Green, who with writing partner Betty Comden won seven Tony Awards in a Broadway career that stretched from “On the Town” in 1944 to their longest-running show, “The Will Rogers...
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Oct 24, 2002 · Adolph Green, the playwright, performer and lyricist who in a six-decade collaboration with Betty Comden was co-author of such hit Broadway musicals as "On the Town," "Wonderful Town" and...
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Songwriter ("New York, New York", "The Party's Over", "Just in Time", "Make Someone Happy"), author and actor, educated at City College of New York. While he was a student, he acted with the Washington Square Players and had a part in the road company of "Having a Wonderful Time".
