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Betty Comden. Betty Comden (comedic writer, born May 3, 1919, New York, New York died, November 23, 2006) Adolph Green (comedic writer, born December 2, 1915, New York, New York died, October 23, 2002) Broadway and film musicals were two of America's major cultural gifts to the world, and for more than fifty years nobody did it better than ...
Sep 19, 2007 · At the start of yesterday’s tribute to Betty Comden, the celebrated lyricist and librettist of movies and major league Broadway musicals who died in November at 89, Lauren Bacall announced that ...
May 3, 2016 · Betty Comden also performed in films such as Sidney Lumet’s "Garbo Talks" (1984), and James Ivory's "Slaves of New York" (1989). Lyricist, Motion Picture Screenwriter. Born Basya Cohen in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, along with her longtime collaborator Adolph Green, she wrote the lyrics and often the librettos for some of the most ...
Betty Comden (1917 – 2006) provided the lyrics, libretti and screenplays for some of the most renowned Broadway shows and Hollywood musicals. Best known for her collaborations with
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. Although they were not a romantic couple, they shared a unique comic genius and sophisticated wit that enabled them to forge a six ...
A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green is a musical revue with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, André Previn, Saul Chaplin, and Roger Edens. The performance was composed of material written by Comden and Green for stage shows, films, and their former comedy troupe The Revuers.
Comden was born in Brooklyn in 1917, Konecky said, the daughter of Leo and Rebecca Comden. Her father was a lawyer, her mother a schoolteacher. She graduated from New York University in 1938.
