On Jan. 23, 1960, Green married singer-actress Phyllis Newman; they had two children. Comden and Green adapted "Bells are Ringing" into a film starring Judy Holliday and Dean Martin, released in June 1960. The soundtrack album spent three months in the charts. They then wrote the lyrics to Jule Styne's music for the musical "Do Re Mi," which opened in December. The show ran 400 performances, the cast album was in the charts for five months, and Perry Como scored a chart entry with "Make Someone Happy." A year later, Comden and Green wrote the book and lyrics for "Subways are for Sleeping," another musical with Styne. It ran 205 performances and the cast album was in the charts for two and a half months. Comden and Green's stage and film projects came less frequently after the early 1960s. Lena Horne reached the charts in November 1963 with "Now!," a civil rights song for which they provided lyrics with music adapted from "Hava Nagila" by Jule Styne. They wrote the screenplay and collaborated with Styne on the songs for the May 1964 box-office hit WHAT A WAY TO GO! The same month, the musical "Fade Out-Fade In," for which they had written the book and lyrics and Styne had written the music, opened on Broadway. It ran 271 performances and the cast album spent two months in the charts. They next wrote the lyrics to Styne's music for the musical "Hallelujah, Baby!," which opened in April 1967, running 293 performances and winning them their second Tony Award, as Best Lyricists. Their third Tony Award came for "Applause" (N.Y., March 30, 1970), named Best Musical, for which they wrote the book only. Comden and Green next collaborated with Jule Styne on a reworking of his show "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Retitled "Lorelei" and featuring a revised score, the show opened in January 1974 and ran 320 performances. The lyricists first worked with composer Cy Coleman on songs for the Off-Broadway revue "Straws in the Wind" (N.Y., Feb. 21, 1975), directed by Phyllis Newman. They wrote the book for another Off-Broadway revue, "By Bernstein" (N.Y., Nov. 23, 1975), which featured little-known Leonard Bernstein songs cut from earlier works. They then revived their own revue, "A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green" (N.Y., Feb. 10, 1977), again recording it and performing it on television. "On the Twentieth Century," based on the 1934 film TWENTIETH CENTURY, marked Comden and Green's return to writing both book and lyrics for a Broadway musical in 1978. The show, with music by Cy Coleman, ran 460 performances, winning Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score. The lyricist/librettists collaborated with composer Larry Grossman on the unsuccessful "A Doll's Life" in 1982 and adapted their screenplay into a musical book for "Singin' in the Rain" (N.Y., July 2, 1985). But they capped their career by writing the book and lyrics to Coleman's music for "The Will Rogers Follies" in 1991. The show ran 963 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Score, while the cast recording won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show album. Comden and Green's shows continue to be revived in regional productions and on Broadway, such as the Broadway revival of "On the Town" during the 1998-99 season. Source: BAKER'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF MUSICIANS-CENTENNIAL EDITION, by Nicolas Slonimsky, ed., Gale Group, © 2001 Gale Group. Reprinted by permission of The Gale Group. back to page 2