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Songwriter Biography: COMDEN, BETTY

COMDEN, BETTY       Hall of Fame
(Betty Cohen)
Born: 1919 Brooklyn, NY
Collaborators: Adolph Green, Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne,
Cy Coleman

Began with night-club act "The Revuers" with Green and Judy
Holliday.  Writer of screenplays and co-star (with Green) of
"A Party with Comden and Green" on Broadway and on tour

Shows: On the Town, Two on the Aisle, Wonderful Town, Peter
Pan, The Bells are Ringing, Say Darling, Do Re Mi, Subways Are
for Sleeping, Fade Out - Fade In, Hallelujah Baby, Lorelei,
Straws in the Wind, On the Twentieth Century, Will Rogers
Follies, Billion Dollar Baby, By Bernstein

Films: It's Always Fair Weather, What a Way to Go

Principal Songs: Captain Hook's Waltz, Comes Once in a Lifetime, The
French Lesson, I Can Cook Too, I Get Carried Away, I Met a
Girl, I'm Going Back, Just in Time, Lonely Town, Long Before I
Knew You, Lucky to Be Me, Make Someone Happy, Never Never
Land, New York New York, Ohio, One Hundred Easy Ways, The
Party's Over, Some Other Time, Wrong Note Rag, If You Hadn't
But You Did
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