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In the final analysis, Betty Comden was one of the most important librettists in the history of American musical comedy, contributing a wit informed both by her liberal Jewish upbringing and her implicit belief that women need to assert themselves creatively. Comden passed away on November 23, 2006, at the age of 89.
Nov 24, 2006 · Nov. 24, 2006. Betty Comden, who with her longtime collaborator Adolph Green wrote the lyrics and often the librettos for some of the most celebrated musicals of stage and screen, died...
Betty Comden was born Elizabeth Cohen in Brooklyn, New York on May 3, 1919. In 1938, soon after her graduation from New York University, where she studied drama, she started making the rounds of theatrical agents. While she didn’t find an agent, she did get acquainted with Green, who was also searching for a theatrical agent.
Nov 24, 2006 · Broadway lyricist Betty Comden, who collaborated with Adolph Green on New York stage hits such as On the Town and Singin' in the Rain, has died. Comden died Thursday of heart failure at New York ...
Nov 23, 2006 · Betty Comden ( b. New York City, May 3, 1917; d. New York City, November 23, 2006) and her partner – but not husband – Adolph Green (1914–2002) constituted the writing team of Comden and Green that turned out lyrics, books, and screenplays for six decades of American hit musicals.
Along with her co-writer Adolph Green, Comden penned some of the best loved Broadway musicals to make the transition to the big screen. Most famous of all was Singin' In The Rain (1952), but others include On The Town (1949), The Band Wagon (1953) and It's Always Fair Weather (1955).
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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