Betty Comden And Adolph Green

American lyric songwriting, musical and screenwriting team best known for their collaborations with composers [a299702] and [a341663].

They achieved great things in theater and film as well as song. They won Tony Awards for [i]Wonderful Town[/i], [i]Hallelujah, Baby![/i] and [i]Applause[/i]; Screen Writers' Guild Awards for [i]The Bandwagon[/i], [i]On the Town[/i], [i]Singin' in the Rain[/i] and [i]It's Always Fair Weather[/i]. They also earned two Oscars nominations: for [i]The Band Wagon[/i] (1954) and [i]It's Always Fair Weather[/i] (1956).

They began their careers as performer-writers as a satirical nightclub act [a4044988] with [a=Judy Holliday] in New York.