Betty Comden
Betty Comden
Betty Comdenwas one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century. Her writing partnership with Adolph Green, called "the longest running creative partnership in theatre history", lasted for six decades, during which time they collaborated with other leading entertainment figures such as the famed "Freed Unit" at MGM, Jule Styne and Leonard Bernstein, and wrote the musical comedy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth3 May 1917
CountryUnited States of America
[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.
There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really saying what happened... it's a sort of happy accident.
The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
Broadway's not what it used to be.
Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.
We never thought we were. That's the important part.