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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Rodgers Sheldon Harnick Stephen Schwartz Steven Epstein 4 nominations Adolph Green Alex Lacamoire Betty Comden David Caddick Dean Sharenow Fred Ebb Jeanine...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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 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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  • 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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  • 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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    1970, Applause (starring Lauren Bacall, with book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and lyrics by Adams) won Strouse his second Tony Award for Best Musical...
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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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  • for Charlie Weaver Sings For His People Adolph Green & Betty Comden for A Party With Betty Comden And Adolph Green Best Musical Composition First Recorded...
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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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  • 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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  • Urie as Jerry Robbins Brian Klugman as Aaron Copland Nick Blaemire as Adolph Green Mallory Portnoy as Betty Comden Sarah Silverman as Shirley Bernstein...
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  • solely on the music, and he and Robbins had invited Betty Comden and Adolph Green to write the lyrics, but the team opted to work on Peter Pan instead...
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    Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, and Sidney Sheldon 1950: On the Town – Adolph Green and Betty Comden 1951: Annie Get Your Gun – Sidney Sheldon 1952: An American...
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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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    songwriting duos: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and John Kander and Fred Ebb. Members of six music groups were awarded:...
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