ADOLPH GREEN
Adolph Green was born on December 2 of 1915 in the Bronx, New York City, USA
and died on October 23 0f 2002 in Manhattan, USA
Adolph Green was an American lyricist and playwright, who penned most of his
songs, plays, and movies with Betty Comden. Betty Comden and Adolph Green collaborated for six decades
and were widely considered Broadway's most successful team.
They wrote the follow Broadway musicals "On the Town", "Wonderful Town"
and the classic "Singin' in the Rain", about Hollywood in the final days of the silent film era.
Considered by many film historians to be the best movie musical of all time, it
ranked #10 on the list of the 100 Best American Movies of the 20th Century,
compiled by the American Film Institute in 1998.They followed this with another
hit, The Band Wagon, in which the characters of Lester and Lily, a husband-and-wife
team that writes the screenplay for the show-within-a-show, were patterned after
themselves. They were Oscar-nominated twice, for their screenplays for The Band
Wagon and It's Always Fair Weather, both of which earned them a Screen Writers
Guild Award, as did On the Town.
Adolph Green was born on December 2 of 1915 in the Bronx, New York City, USA
and died on October 23 0f 2002 in Manhattan, USA
Adolph Green was an American lyricist and playwright, who penned most of his
songs, plays, and movies with Betty Comden. Betty Comden and Adolph Green collaborated for six decades
and were widely considered Broadway's most successful team.
They wrote the follow Broadway musicals "On the Town", "Wonderful Town"
and the classic "Singin' in the Rain", about Hollywood in the final days of the silent film era.
Considered by many film historians to be the best movie musical of all time, it
ranked #10 on the list of the 100 Best American Movies of the 20th Century,
compiled by the American Film Institute in 1998.They followed this with another
hit, The Band Wagon, in which the characters of Lester and Lily, a husband-and-wife
team that writes the screenplay for the show-within-a-show, were patterned after
themselves. They were Oscar-nominated twice, for their screenplays for The Band
Wagon and It's Always Fair Weather, both of which earned them a Screen Writers
Guild Award, as did On the Town.