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Comden and Green was a 60-year songwriting partnership, comprising Betty Comden (1917–2006) and Adolph Green (1914–2002). They first worked together in 1941 at the Village Gate in New York City, as writers and performers in a nightclub act called The Revuers.
Nov 24, 2006 · Betty Comden was born Elizabeth Cohen on May 3, 1917, in Brooklyn. Her father, Leo, was a lawyer, her mother, Rebecca, a teacher. She attended Erasmus Hall High School and studied drama at New ...
Betty Comden was born Elizabeth Cohen in Brooklyn, New York on May 3, 1919. In 1938, soon after her graduation from New York University, where she studied drama, she started making the rounds of theatrical agents. While she didn’t find an agent, she did get acquainted with Green, who was also searching for a theatrical agent.
Nov 23, 2006 · Betty Comden BIO. Betty Comden, born in Brooklyn in 1917, was an American lyricist, screenwriter, and actress. She is best known for her work with Adolph Green, with whom she collaborated on ...
Nov 23, 2006 · Betty Comden. Basya Cohen [Birthname] Biography: Betty Comden was born Basya Cohen on May 3, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York to Leo and Rebecca Cohen. She studied drama at New York University. She married designer and businessman Steven Kyle, with whom she had her children Susanna and Alan. She published her memoir, "Off Stage," in 1995.
They were both members of the Council of the Dramatists’ Guild, have been elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980, and have received the Mayor of New York’s Certificate of Excellence. Miss Comden received the Woman of the Year Award from the Alumni Association of New York University.
Nov 23, 2006 · Betty Comden, born Elizabeth Cohen, attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and studied drama at New York University, graduating in 1938. In that year, in the depths of the Great Depression, she met Adolph Green, who was working as a runner on Wall Street, and several other theatrically-inclined young people who decided to form a performing troupe called the Revuers.
