Editing Adolph Green (section)

=== 1938–1947 ===
[[File:Leonard Bernstein in his apartment, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948 (William P. Gottlieb 00671).jpg|thumb|left|160px|Comden and Green collaborated with [[Leonard Bernstein]] on ''[[Wonderful Town]]'' ]]
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 Green's good friend, a young musician named [[Leonard Bernstein]], whom he had met in 1937 at Camp Onota (a summer camp in Pittsfield MA where Bernstein was the music counselor), frequently accompanied them on the piano. 
Together, Comden and Green's act earned success and a movie offer. The Revuers traveled west in hopes of finding fame in ''[[Greenwich Village (film)|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. Their first Broadway effort teamed them with Bernstein for ''[[On the Town (musical)|On the Town]]'', a musical romp about three sailors on leave in New York City that was an expansion of a [[ballet]] entitled ''[[Fancy Free (ballet)|Fancy Free]]'' on which Bernstein had been working with [[choreographer]] [[Jerome Robbins]]. Comden and Green wrote the lyrics and book, which included sizeable parts for themselves. Their next two musicals, ''Billion Dollar Baby'' (1945) and ''Bonanza Bound'' (1947) were not successful, and once again they headed to California, where they immediately found work at MGM.