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	Adolph Green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adolph Green (December 2, 1914 - October 23, 2002) was an American lyricist and playwright, who penned most of his songs, plays, and movies with Betty Comden.
		Green was born in the Bronx to Hungarian Jewish immigrants Daniel and Helen Weiss Green.
		Comden and Green wrote numerous hits, including "New York, New York" (the version from the musical On The Town) and the screenplay for the film Singin' in the Rain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adolph_Green (232 words)

	Great Performances . Artists . Adolph Green \| PBS
		Comden and Green returned to Broadway to write sketches and lyrics to Jule Styne's music for the revue "Two on the Aisle," which opened in July 1951 and ran 281 performances.
		Comden and Green reunited with Judy Holliday, by now a successful singer and comic actress, who starred in the 1956 musical "Bells are Ringing." They wrote the book and collaborated with Jule Styne on the songs.
		Comden and Green next wrote the screenplay for AUNTIE MAME, released in December, and they performed in their own revue, "A Party with Comden and Green," opening in December and running 82 performances.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/songbook/multimedia/bio_green2.html (449 words)

	Great Performances . Artists . Adolph Green \| PBS
		Comden was the daughter of Leo Cohen, a lawyer, and Rebecca Sadvoransky Cohen.
		Green, the son of Daniel and Helen Weiss Green, became a runner on Wall Street after graduating from high school.
		By that time the group had split up, and Comden and Green had their own nightclub act back in N.Y. They gave it up when they were approached by Bernstein, who was expanding his ballet, "Fancy Free," into a Broadway musical.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/songbook/multimedia/bio_green.html (442 words)

	Lyricist Adolph Green dies (printable version)
		Comden and Green wrote the book and lyrics, and included two plum roles for themselves.
		Comden and Green had their share of stage flops, too, most famously “A Doll’s Life” (1982).
		Green was born in 1914 — some references give a later date — in the Bronx, the son of Daniel and Helen Green.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=26653 (869 words)

	COMDEN and GREEN : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Betty Comden (b 3 May 1917) and Adolph Green (b 2 December 1914; d 24 October 2002), one of the most successful lyricist/librettist teams of all time, New Yorkers who worked together inseparably after they met at New York U and formed a club act performing their own songs.
		The Revuers included John Frank, Alvin Hammer, Judy Holiday and Comden and Green, who wrote the material because they had no money to buy any; they opened in 1939 at the Village Vanguard and rescued owner Max Gordon from penury.
		The returned to New York separately, and Green was despondent when he reached Grand Central Terminal, but Comden was waiting for him, holding a sign that said 'Adolph Green Fan Club' (they later put that moment into a film, The Band Wagon in 1953, where Fred Astaire played a dancer down on his luck).
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/c/C205.HTM (455 words)

	Playbill News: Newman and Green to Premiere Bernstein, Comden and Green July 3
		Amanda Green is the daughter of Phyllis Newman and the late lyricist/book writer Adolph Green.
		Green is the winner of two MAC Awards, a Backstage Magazine Bistro Award and the Abe Olman Award for Excellence in Songwriting from The Songwriter's Hall of Fame.
		Green and Comden also worked together on Bells Are Ringing, On the 20th Century and the film "Singin' in the Rain." Bernstein's other Broadway credits include West Side Story and Candide.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/86794.html (491 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Singin' In The Rain writer dies
		Green, whose collaboration with Betty Comden resulted in some of stage and screen's greatest musical comedies, died in his sleep at his Manhattan home on Wednesday, aged 86.
		Comden and Green wrote for nine films including musicals Singin' in the Rain in 1952, 1953's The Band Wagon and 1960's Bells are Ringing.
		Comden and Green went on to collaborate on hit shows for stars such as Lauren Bacall and Phil Silvers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/2360781.stm (427 words)

	On the Town With Comden and Green
		Comden, thin, obsessively punctual and as decisive as a surgical knife, was outfitted in a dramatic blue Koos fringed coat with bold patches of color and a fl shawl.
		Green, warm and avuncular, his vision clouded by cataracts and his gait more noticeably slowed by age, was in a checked shirt, blue tie, blue blazer and heavy winter coat.
		Comden and Green are more like a single creature with two brains, heads and mouths.
	www.nytimes.com /1988/12/25/arts/theater/19881225green.html (1891 words)

	Adolph Green
		Adolph Green (December 2, 1914 - October 24, 2002) was an American lyricist and playwright, who penned most of his songs, plays, and movies with Betty Comden.
		Comden and Green wrote numerous hits, including New York, New York and Singin' in the Rain.
		Green was born in the Bronx to Hungarian immigrants Daniel and Helen Weiss Green.
	www.ukpedia.com /a/adolph-green.html (174 words)

	ASCAP Musical Theater Great, Aldoph Green, Dies at 87
		Adolph Green was born in Manhattan on December 2, 1914.
		Comden and Green first met in 1938 when both were aspiring New York actors.
		Green is survived by his wife, Phyllis Newman, and his son, Adam Green, daughter, Amanda Green and son-in-law, Jeffrey Kaplan, as well as two step-grandchildren, all of New York City.
	www.ascap.com /press/2002/adolphgreen_102502.html (471 words)

	Comden and Green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Comden and Green was the writing duo of Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
		Comden and Green's hits include the Broadway musicals On the Town and Wonderful Town, each of which was a celebration of New York City and which were adapted into movie musicals as well, and On the Twentieth Century and Bells Are Ringing.
		They also worked on the musical films Singin' in the Rain (most of whose songs were from other MGM musicals) and The Band Wagon.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comden_and_Green (176 words)

	Artsandentartainment: 'Wonderful Town' goes on without collaborator
		Comden sits at a corner table in Sardi's, the venerable theater-district restaurant where caricatures of theater notables grace the walls.
		At 88, Comden speaks slowly yet deliberately and with a soft, almost shy laugh as she recalls the frantic birth pains of Wonderful Town, which first opened on Broadway on Feb. 25, 1953.
		Comden and Green were experts at writing material for specific stars - Judy Holliday in Bells Are Ringing, Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker in Do Re Mi and Carol Burnett in Fade Out, Fade In, for example.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/11/16/Artsandentartainment/_Wonderful_Town__goes.shtml (761 words)

	New York Daily News - Entertainment - Comden reflects on 'Wonderful' partner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It reunited Comden and Green with their friend Leonard Bernstein, with whom they wrote "On the Town" in 1944.
		He had directed "On the Town" and asked Comden and Green if they could persuade their old friend Bernstein to work with them on this tight deadline.
		Comden and Green continued to work until his death on Oct. 23, 2002.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/story/138696p-123217c.html (475 words)

	Remembering Adolph Green and a Standing Ovation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Adolph Green, who with his longtime partner Betty Comden, wrote the screenplays for such classic musical films as Singin' in the Rain, The Bandwagon, The Barkleys of Broadway, and It's Always Fair Weather, died Thursday, October 24.
		Comden and Green as they were always called, received the Writers Guild's highest screenwriting honor, the
		Two years ago, the Writers Guild of America, west honored Comden and Green with the Laurel Award for a lifetime achievement in screenwriting.
	www.wga.org /craft/profiles/adolphgreen.html (432 words)

	Betty Comden & Adolph Green
		Adolph Green, the playwright, performer and lyricist and who, in a six-decade collaboration with Betty Comden, co-authored such Broadway hits as "On the Town," "Wonderful Town", and "On the 20th Century" and screenplays for "Singin' in the Rain" and "The Band Wagon" died on October 24 at the age of 87.
		Comden and Green also recently received honorary Doctor of Music degrees from the Indiana University School of Music.
		Adolph Green is married to the actress, Phyllis Newman.
	www.leonardbernstein.com /comdenandgreen (773 words)

	Green, Adolph -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		As part of the U.S. musical comedy writing team of Comden and Green, Adolph Green and his partner Betty Comden maintained a professional partnership longer than any other writing team in the history of Broadway.
		This vast oasis is a rectangle of green that reaches from the city center to the ocean.
		Green was one of the first white playwrights to write perceptively about the problems of Southern fls.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9325149?tocId=9325149 (798 words)

	Blossom Dearie Sings Comden and Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Pulling together 10 songs by the great writing team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who coincidentally wrote the screen play to my favorite film - Auntie Mame, she makes each song her own and makes you feel that she is singing to you personally.
		Green were asked to appear on the cover with Blossom.
		Comden's apartment for the photo shoot and upon hearing the record, Ms.
	www.findtutorials.com /shop/index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B00005N6T0 (493 words)

	Greenwood Publishing Group I1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The sections contain entries for all of the productions with which Comden and Green were involved, and the entries provide full information about the performances, including cast lists, plot summaries, reviews, and commentaries.
		These sections are followed by an extensive bibliography and an appendix that lists the awards and nominations that Comden and Green and their works have received.
		ALICE M. ROBINSON is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the Baltimore County Campus of the University of Maryland, where she teaches courses on theatre history, American theatre, speech for the actor, and the oral interpretation of literature.
	info.greenwood.com /books/0313276/0313276595.html (350 words)

	Alibris: Comden
		by Comden, Betty, and Coleman, Cy, and Green, Adolph
		by Bernstein, Leonard (Composer), and Comden, Betty (Composer), and Green, Adolph (Composer)
		by Comden, Betty, and Green, Adolph, and Shimin, Symeon
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Comden (341 words)

	New York Daily News - Theater - The Cultural Tourist: What a glorious feeling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Comden is reserved in them, a subtle twinkle visible in her eyes.
		Green is unabashedly extroverted, his eyes bulging with excitement, his hair an unruly halo.
		Comden and Green began working together as part of a nightclub act, The Revuers, who appeared at the Village Vanguard in 1939.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/theater/story/31992p-30341c.html (932 words)

	MMI Special Report: Comden & Green Tribute
		The musicals of Adolph Green and Betty Comden were among my favorites, even one that was considered a financial failure, 1961's "Subways Are For Sleeping" with Tony winner Mrs.
		A lady cabdriver falls for his pal (that would be Comden and Green in person, Frank Sinatra and Betty Garrett on film) and the third buddy (Jules Munshin inherited Cris Alexander's role) winds up with the likes of Ann Miller on celluloid and Nancy Walker in the flesh.
		She, too, was a necessary part of the Comden and Green tapestry, a girl who was so lonely and unloved in the great big city that the audience just had to fall in love with her.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/comden&greentri-ms-89638296.html (578 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Adolph Green : Biography
		Green and Comden remained in New York to write the libretto for and co-star in the Leonard Bernstein musical On the Town (which they later adapted for the screen).
		Green and Comden continued collaborating, spending less performance time as they became busier writers.
		For the Broadway stage, Green and Comden concocted a musical vehicle for their old Revuers cohort Judy Holliday, Bells are Ringing (1956), and also wrote the non-musical success Auntie Mame (1958).
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/81560/bio.jhtml (254 words)

	USATODAY.com - Adolph Green, lyricist of longevity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Green and his partner, Betty Comden, collaborated with such venerable composers as Leonard Bernstein and Jule Styne to create such beloved musicals as On the Town, Wonderful Town, Applause and On the 20th Century.
		The act also featured Comden and a young Judy Holliday, for whom Comden and Green later penned Bells Are Ringing.
		According to Cook, the brisk, sassy wit that distinguished Comden and Green's repertoire was equally evident in his personality.
	www.usatoday.com /life/theater/news/2002-10-25-adolph-green_x.htm (242 words)

	The Insider by Ken Mandelbaum: Comden and Green on Disc, - Broadway.com Buzz
		Watching Comden and Green back then, they seemed to me the last word in sophistication, the essence of the Manhattan I was already so excited by.
		When Green died last week, he took with him a part of the city to which he and Comden had paid loving tribute in On the Town, Wonderful Town, and Bells Are Ringing.
		Comden and Green were able to evoke the loneliness of New York, but they could also make it seem like a small town in which people made friends with strangers on the subway.
	www.broadway.com /gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?CI=21410 (380 words)

	Screen Laurel Award - Comden and Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Comden and Green are best known for their musicals: Good News (1947), On the Town (1949), The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), Singin’ in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953), It’s Always Fair Weather (1955), and Bells Are Ringing (1960), although they also wrote two nonmusicals—Auntie Mame (1958) and What a Way to Go!
		The team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1991 and the longest-running creative partnership in theater history, began writing and performing their own satirical comic material in a group called The Revuers, which included the late Judy Holliday.
		Both Comden and Green are members of the Council of the Dramatists Guild, have been elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, have received the Major of New York’s Certificate of Excellence, the 1994 NYU Musical Theater Hall of Fame Award and the 1994 Governor Cuomo Award.
	www.wga.org /awards2001/screen-laurel.html (788 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Off Stage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Betty Comden and Adolph Green together have written musicals for the theater and scripts for the movies over an astonishing seven decades, including titles from Bells Are Ringing and The Will Rogers Follies to Singin' in the Rain and Band Wagon.
		Alone, she was a doting wife, a mother who thought she could never master motherhood, and a woman left to mourn the death of her husband, son, and many dear friends.
		Comden has lived long enough to have experienced many sadnesses, and she writes about them as openly as she does the happinesses.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0671705792 (593 words)

	Comden and Green : Betty Comden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		terms defined : Comden and Green : Betty Comden
		Comden and Green's hits include the Broadway musicals On the Town[?], Wonderful Town[?], On the Twentieth Century[?], and Bells Are Ringing[?], and the musical films Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon.
		Neither Dent nor me could open his prison doors for out--you can set by the fire as long as you pleases, or you can.
	www.termsdefined.net /be/betty-comden.html (283 words)

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