Betty Comden

On stage 2 productions, 33 years

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Worked with more than once1 names

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking.

Also credited on18 works

Wonderful Town
Applause
Billion Dollar Baby
Two on the Aisle
Peter Pan
Bells Are Ringing
Say, Darling
Do Re Mi
On the Twentieth Century
The Will Rogers Follies
Wonderful Town (2003 Revival)
A Doll's Life
Fade Out— Fade In
Hallelujah, Baby!
Lorelei
Subways Are For Sleeping
Jerome Robbins’ Broadway
On the Twentieth Century

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature8 passages

• 7. Leonard Bernstein with Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden and Adolph Green working on On the Town , 1944.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 3 The Revuers (left to right): Adolph Green, John Frank, Betty Comden, Alvin Hammer, Judy Holliday, 1940s.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 7 Leonard Bernstein with Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden and Adolph Green working on On the Town in 1944.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 43 Adolph Green (1914–2002), American lyricist, playwright, and scriptwriter whose writing partnership with Betty Comden produced several successful Broadway shows including On the Town and Wonderful Town , both with Bernstein. In Hollywood, Comden and Green's greatest successes were at MGM, notably Singin’ in the Rain . Green first met B…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 60 Betty Comden (1917–2006), American lyricist, writer, and performer, the writing partner of Adolph Green for numerous successful Broadway shows and Hollywood films. Bernstein came to know Comden in 1939 through Green, when both of them were members of The Revuers. Bernstein made one of his first recordings with The Revuers in March 1940…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 131 The eventual star of Greenwich Village was Carmen Miranda. Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Judy Holliday, and Alvin Hammer all appeared in the film.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt

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What this page does not know

• What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
• Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
• Which of the credits above the roles on this record — lyricist, book writer, actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.