Editing Adolph Green (section)

=== 1948–1969 ===
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They wrote the screenplay for ''[[Good News (1947 film)|Good News]]'' (1947), starring [[June Allyson]] and [[Peter Lawford]], ''[[The Barkleys of Broadway]]'' for [[Ginger Rogers]] and [[Fred Astaire]], and then adapted ''[[On the Town (film)|On the Town]]'' (1949) for [[Frank Sinatra]] and [[Gene Kelly]], scrapping much of Bernstein's music at the request of [[Arthur Freed]], who did not care for the Bernstein score. They reunited with Kelly for their most successful project, the classic ''[[Singin' in the Rain]]'' (1952), about Hollywood in the final days of the [[silent film]] era. The film was directed by [[Gene Kelly]] and [[Stanley Donen]] and starred Kelly, [[Debbie Reynolds]] and [[Donald O'Connor]]. Together Comden and Green received a nomination for the [[Writers Guild of America Award|Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical]]. Considered by many film historians to be the best movie musical of all time, it ranked No. 10 on the list of the 100 best American movies of the 20th century compiled by the [[American Film Institute]] in 1998. 
[[File:Singin' in the Rain trailer screenshot.jpg|thumb|right|Gene Kelly in ''Singin' in the Rain'']]

They followed this with another hit, and another musical ''[[The Band Wagon]]'' (1953), in which the characters of Lester and Lily, a husband-and-wife team that writes the play for the show-within-a-show, were patterned after themselves. The film was directed by [[Vincente Minnelli]] and starred [[Fred Astaire]], [[Cyd Charisse]], [[Nanette Fabray]] and [[Oscar Levant]]. They reunited with Donen and Kelly with another musical ''[[It's Always Fair Weather]]'' (1955). They were [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-nominated twice, for their screenplays for ''The Band Wagon'' and ''[[It's Always Fair Weather]]'', both of which earned them a [[Writers Guild of America|Screen Writers Guild Award]], as did ''[[On the Town (film)|On the Town]]''. Their stage work during the next few years included the revue ''[[Two on the Aisle]]'' (1951), starring [[Bert Lahr]] and [[Dolores Gray]], ''[[Wonderful Town]]'' (1953), an adaptation of the comedy hit ''[[My Sister Eileen]]'', with [[Rosalind Russell]] and [[Edie Adams]] as two sisters from Ohio trying to make it in the [[Big Apple]], and ''[[Bells Are Ringing (musical)|Bells Are Ringing]]'' (1956), which reunited them with Judy Holliday as an operator at a telephone answering service. The score, including the standards "[[Just in Time (song)|Just in Time]]", "Long Before I Knew You," and "[[The Party's Over (1956 song)|The Party's Over]]" proved to be one of their richest.

Comden and Green returned to films with [[Morton DaCosta]]'s ''[[Auntie Mame (film)|Auntie Mame]]'' (1958) starring [[Rosalind Russell]] and Minnelli's ''[[Bells Are Ringing (film)|Bells Are Ringing]]'' (1961) starring [[Judy Holliday]] and [[Dean Martin]]. In 1958, they appeared on Broadway in ''[[A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green]]'', a revue that included some of their early sketches. It was a critical and commercial success, and they brought an updated version back to Broadway in 1977. In 1964 they wrote the screenplay for the [[black comedy]] ''[[What a Way to Go!]]'' starring [[Shirley MacLaine]], [[Paul Newman]], [[Robert Mitchum]], Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, and [[Dick Van Dyke]]. The film was a commercial success but received mixed reviews.