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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...
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  • Comden and Green was a 60-year songwriting partnership, comprising Betty Comden (1917–2006) and Adolph Green (1914–2002). They first worked together in...
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    Singin' in the Rain (category Films with screenplays by Betty Comden and Adolph Green)
    transition from silent films to "talkies", writers Betty Comden and Adolph Green decided that was when the story should be set. When the story morphed...
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  • with Adolph Green spanned six decades: "the longest running creative partnership in theatre history." The musical-comedy duo of Comden and Green collaborated...
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    also received Tony nominations for his roles in the Betty Comden and Adolph Green musical Applause (1970), and the Sondheim musical A Little Night Music...
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    Adolf (redirect from Adolph)
    Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo, and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name with German origins. The name is a compound derived from the...
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    successful 1956 Broadway production of the same name by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne, the film focuses on Ella Peterson, based on the life...
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  • with music and lyrics written by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The project eventually collapsed when Coppola's American Zoetrope experienced...
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  • 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,...
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    lyricist and playwright Adolph Green; and her experience with cancer. Newman was married to lyricist and playwright Adolph Green from 1960 until his death...
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    songwriting duos: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and John Kander and Fred Ebb. Members of five music groups were awarded:...
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  • Dearie Sings Comden and Green is a 1959 album by Blossom Dearie, focusing on the work of lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green. "Lucky to Be Me" (Leonard...
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  • the musical film Singin' in the Rain. Screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green recall that before shooting had started, they had "painfully wedged into...
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  • Slaves of New York. Green is the son of Tony Award-winning actress Phyllis Newman and Broadway lyricist and playwright Adolph Green. He is the brother...
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  • Joseph Fields, Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Robert Fryer 1954 (8th) Kismet Book by Luther Davis and Charles Lederer...
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  • Comden and Adolph Green) – Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra "O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg" (music by Roger Edens, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green) – Gene...
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    Leonard Bernstein (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    briefly shared an apartment in Greenwich Village with his friend Adolph Green. Green was then part of a satirical music troupe called The Revuers, featuring...
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  • Norton 2010, p. 696. Bordman & Norton 2010, p. 152. Bloom 2013, p. 294. Green & Ginell 2019, p. 227. Maro, Emmanuel (23 August 2012). "VIDEO. Louis Delort:...
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  • Singin' in the Rain is a stage musical with story by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyrics by Arthur Freed, and music by Nacio Herb Brown. Adapted from...
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    Brooklyn Bridge in 1993. McLerie was married to the lyricist/librettist Adolph Green from 1945 until their divorce in May 1953. She was also married to actor...
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  • Hammerstein. Burt Bacharach and Hal David followed in 1972. Betty Comden and Adolph Green were selected in 1980, and Leiber and Stoller were inducted in 1985....
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  • win the award; he was 27 when he won in tandem with Lucy Moss for Six. Adolph Green is the oldest person to win the award; he was 76 when he won for The...
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  • It's Always Fair Weather (category Films with screenplays by Betty Comden and Adolph Green)
    1955 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical satire scripted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also wrote the show's lyrics, with music by André Previn and starring...
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  • Count Basie Eddie Durham 1956 "Just in Time" Jule Styne Betty Comden and Adolph Green 1935 "Just One of Those Things" Cole Porter Cole Porter 1933 "Keep Young...
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    nightclub act called The Revuers, whose other members were Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Alvin Hammer, John Frank and Esther Cohen. They played engagements in...
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    Michael Stewart, On the Twentieth Century (1978) with Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and Home Again, Home Again with Barbara Fried, although the latter never...
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    with small parts in successful productions such as the Betty Comden and Adolph Green musical Say, Darling (1958–59) featuring Robert Morse, David Wayne, and...
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  • and Adolph Green Comden and Green Notable song: "New York, New York". On the Twentieth Century 1978 Broadway Cy Coleman Betty Comden and Adolph Green Comden...
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  • Curtis Mic Murphy 2:40 13. "Being Good Isn't Good Enough" Betty Comden Adolph Green Jule Styne Hall Curtis 3:52 14. "Come Dance with Me" (John "J-C" Carr...
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    Wonderful Town (1953) West Side Story (1957) A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green (1958, collaboration) The Race to Urga (1969 - incomplete) "By Bernstein"...
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