Adolph Green

Adolph Green was an American lyricist and playwright who, with longtime collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freeds production unit at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, during the genres heyday. Many people thought the pair were married they were not, but they shared a unique comic genius and sophisticated wit that enabled them to forge a sixdecadelong partnership that produced some of Hollywood and Broadways greatest hits.

Green was born in the Bronx to Hungarian Jewish immigrants Helen and Daniel Green. After high school, he worked as a runner on Wall Street while he tried to make it as an actor. He met Comden through mutual friends in 1938 while she was studying drama at New York University. They formed a troupe called the Revuers, which performed at the Village Vanguard, a club in Greenwich Village. Among the members of the company was a young comedian named Judy Tuvim, who later changed her name to Judy Holliday, and Greens good friend, a young musician named Leonard Bernstein, who he had met in 1937 at a summer camp where Bernstein was the music counselor, frequently accompanied them on the piano. The acts success earned them a movie offer and the Revuers traveled west in hopes of finding fame in Greenwich Village, a 1944 movie starring Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche, but their roles were so small they barely were noticed, and they quickly returned to New York.

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