Adolph Green (December 2, 1914 – October 23, 2002) was an American

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and

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who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the

screenplays A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show (also known as a ''teleplay''), or video game by screenwriters (cf. ''stage play''). Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writ ...

and songs for musicals on Broadway and in

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. Although they were not a romantic couple, they shared a unique comic genius and sophisticated wit that enabled them to forge a six-decade-long partnership. They received numerous accolades including four

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and nominations for two

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and a

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. Green was inducted into the

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in 1980 and American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981. Comden and Green received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1991. They started their career alongside

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on stage where they received the

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for Best Musical for ''

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'' (1953). On Broadway they wrote the music and lyrics to musicals such as '' On the Town'' (1944), '' Two on the Aisle'' (1951), ''

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'' (1954), '' Bells Are Ringing'' (1956), and '' Applause'' (1970). They won four

as composer and lyricist for '' Hallelujah, Baby!'' (1967), '' On the Twentieth Century'' (1978), and ''

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'' (1991). As performers they starred in '' A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green'' (1958). They gained notoriety in film collaborating with

Stanley Donen Stanley Donen ( ; April 13, 1924 – February 21, 2019) was an American film director and choreographer. He received the Honorary Academy Award in 70th Academy Awards, 1998, and the Golden Lion#Golden Lion – Honorary Award, Career Golden Lion ...

Gene Kelly Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style and sought to create a new form of American dance accessibl ...

and

Vincente Minnelli Vincente Minnelli (; born Lester Anthony Minnelli; February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American Theatre director, stage director and film director. From a career spanning over half a century, he is best known for his sophisticated innovat ...

as part of

Arthur Freed Arthur Freed (September 9, 1894 – April 12, 1973) was an American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture twice, in 1951 for ''An American in Paris'' and in 1958 for '' Gigi''. Both films were musicals ...

's production unit at Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Perhaps their greatest collaboration was for the film ''

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'' (1952), although they received two

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nominations for screenplays for the musicals ''

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'' (1953), and ''

It's Always Fair Weather ''It's Always Fair Weather'' is a 1955 American Musical film, musical romantic comedy film directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. The film was scripted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also wrote the show's lyrics, with music by André P ...

'' (1955). They also wrote the scripts for the classic movie musicals '' The Barkleys of Broadway'' (1949), '' On the Town'' (1949), ''

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'' (1958), and '' Bells Are Ringing'' (1960).

Early life and education

Green was born in

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to Hungarian

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immigrants Helen (née Weiss) and Daniel Green. He was the youngest of three sons and had two older brothers, Louis (circa 1907-?) and William (circa 1910-?). After high school, he worked as a runner on

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while he tried to make it as an actor.

Career

1938–1947

He met Comden through mutual friends in 1938 while she was studying drama at

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. They formed a troupe called the Revuers, which performed at the

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, a club in

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. Among the members of the company was a young comedian named Judy Tuvim, who later changed her name to

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, and Green's good friend, a young musician named

, whom he had met in 1937 at Camp Onota (a summer camp in Pittsfield MA where Bernstein was the music counselor), frequently accompanied them on the piano. Together, Comden and Green's act earned success and a movie offer. The Revuers traveled west in hopes of finding fame in ''

'', a 1944 movie starring

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and

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, but their roles were so small they barely were noticed, and they quickly returned to New York. Their first Broadway effort teamed them with Bernstein for '' On the Town'', a musical romp about three sailors on leave in New York City that was an expansion of a

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entitled '' Fancy Free'' on which Bernstein had been working with

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. Comden and Green wrote the lyrics and book, which included sizeable parts for themselves. Their next two musicals, ''Billion Dollar Baby'' (1945) and ''Bonanza Bound'' (1947) were not successful, and once again they headed to California, where they immediately found work at MGM.

1948–1969

They wrote the screenplay for '' Good News'' (1947), starring June Allyson and

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, '' The Barkleys of Broadway'' for

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and

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, and then adapted '' On the Town'' (1949) for

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and

, scrapping much of Bernstein's music at the request of

, who did not care for the Bernstein score. They reunited with Kelly for their most successful project, the classic ''

'' (1952), about Hollywood in the final days of the

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era. The film was directed by

and

and starred Kelly,

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and

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. Together Comden and Green received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical. Considered by many film historians to be the best movie musical of all time, it ranked No. 10 on the list of the 100 best American movies of the 20th century compiled by the

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in 1998. They followed this with another hit, and another musical ''

'' (1953), in which the characters of Lester and Lily, a husband-and-wife team that writes the play for the show-within-a-show, were patterned after themselves. The film was directed by

and starred

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, Nanette Fabray and

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. They reunited with Donen and Kelly with another musical ''

'' (1955). They were

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-nominated twice, for their screenplays for ''The Band Wagon'' and ''

'', both of which earned them a Screen Writers Guild Award, as did '' On the Town''. Their stage work during the next few years included the revue '' Two on the Aisle'' (1951), starring

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and

Dolores Gray Dolores Gray (June 7, 1924 – June 26, 2002) was an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Best Lead Actress in a Musical twice, winning once. Early life Both her mother ...

, ''

'' (1953), an adaptation of the comedy hit '' My Sister Eileen'', with

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and

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as two sisters from Ohio trying to make it in the Big Apple, and '' Bells Are Ringing'' (1956), which reunited them with Judy Holliday as an operator at a telephone answering service. The score, including the standards " Just in Time", "Long Before I Knew You," and " The Party's Over" proved to be one of their richest. Comden and Green returned to films with Morton DaCosta's ''

'' (1958) starring

and Minnelli's '' Bells Are Ringing'' (1961) starring

and

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. In 1958, they appeared on Broadway in '' A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green'', a revue that included some of their early sketches. It was a critical and commercial success, and they brought an updated version back to Broadway in 1977. In 1964 they wrote the screenplay for the

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'' What a Way to Go!'' starring

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, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, and

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. The film was a commercial success but received mixed reviews.

1970–2002

Among their other credits are the

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version of ''

'' for both Broadway and television, a streamlined ''

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'' for the

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, and stage musicals for

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, and

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, among others. Their many collaborators included

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Cy Coleman Cy Coleman (born Seymour Kaufman; June 14, 1929 – November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. Life and career Coleman was born Seymour Kaufman in New York City, to Ashkenazi, Eastern European Jewish parents, an ...

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, and

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. The team was not without its failures. In 1982, '' A Doll's Life'', an exploration of what Nora did after she abandoned her husband in

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's ''

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'', ran for only five performances, although they received

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nominations for its book and score. In 1980, Green was inducted into the

. And, in 1981, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. The following year Green appeared in the comedy '' My Favorite Year'' (1982) starring

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. The next year they wrote the book for the musical ''

'' for the West End in London in 1983 and then for Broadway in 1985. The production earned two

nominations including for Best Book of a Musical for Comden and Green. In 1989, he appeared as Dr. Pangloss in Bernstein's

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. Comden and Green received

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in 1991. Also in 1991 they returned to Broadway in with the musical ''

''. The musical focuses on the life and career of famed

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ist and performer

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, using as a backdrop the

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. The production earned six

including the

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and the

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for Comden and Green.

Personal life

Green was married to actress Allyn Ann McLerie from 1945 to 1953. Green's third wife was actress

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, who had understudied Holliday in ''Bells Are Ringing''. They married in 1960, and remained so until Green's death in 2002. The couple had two children,

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and Amanda, both of whom are songwriters. His Broadway memorial, with

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, and Betty Comden in attendance was held at the Shubert Theater on December 4, 2002."A Broadway Memorial? That's Entertainment"
'The New York Times'', December 4, 2002

Credits

Broadway

* '' On the Town'' (1944) * '' Billion Dollar Baby'' (1945) * '' Two on the Aisle'' (1951) * ''

'' (1953) * ''

'' (1954) * '' Bells Are Ringing'' (1956) * '' Say, Darling'' (1958) * '' A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green'' (1958) * '' Do Re Mi'' (1960) * '' Subways Are for Sleeping'' (1961) * '' Fade Out – Fade In'' (1964) * '' Hallelujah, Baby!'' (1967) * '' Applause'' (1970) * '' Lorelei'' (1974) * '' On the Twentieth Century'' (1978) * ''

The Madwoman of Central Park West ''The Madwoman of Central Park West'' is a semi-autobiography, autobiographical one-woman musical theatre, musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and Phyllis Newman and songs by various composers and lyricists. It focuses on the difficulties faced ...

'' (1979) * '' A Doll's Life'' (1982) * ''

'' (1985) * ''

'' (1991)

Hollywood

* '' Good News'' (1947) * '' The Barkleys of Broadway'' (1949) * '' On the Town'' (1949) * ''

'' (1952) * ''

'' (1953) * ''

'' (1955) * ''

'' (1958) * '' Bells Are Ringing'' (1960) * '' What a Way to Go!'' (1964) * '' My Favorite Year'' (1982) Acting credits * ''

'' (1944) as Revuer (uncredited) * '' Simon'' (1980) as Commune Leader * '' My Favorite Year'' (1982) as Leo Silver * '' Lily in Love'' (1984) as Jerry Silber * '' Garbo Talks'' (1984) as himself * '' I Want to Go Home'' (1989) as Joey Wellman * ''Candide'' (1991, TV Movie) as Dr. Pangloss / Martin * ''

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'' (1994, TV Series) as Walter (voice) * '' The Substance of Fire'' (1996) as Mr. Musselblatt (final film role)

Awards and nominations

Notes

References

* ''Off Stage'', a memoir by Betty Comden published in 1995

External links

* * * *
Adolph Green papers, 1944–2002
held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division,

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Comden and Green papers, 1933–2003
held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division,

New York Public Library Blog on Comden and Green's Unproduced Screenplay Wonderland
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