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Word: comden (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Music from Shubert Alley (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Six decades of Broadway, recalled in the songs that sparkled in Shubert Alley musicals. Andy Williams is host. Guest stars include Alfred Drake, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Doretta Morrow, Lisa Kirk, Ray Walston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. This talented pair has a ball doing movie parodies, songs, dances and clever patter. They know their stuff; they wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. This talented pair has a ball doing movie parodies, gongs, dances, and clever patter. They know their stuff; they wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. An infectious romp through movie parodies, songs and skits this talented pair wrote for top musicals, e.g., On the Town, and hilarious sight gags. The mood: New Yorky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 4, 1959 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Perhaps the best of Comden-Green is their quicksilver asides. In a take-off on 42nd Street flesh cinemas ("Doors open promptly at 3 a.m."), Doorkeeper Betty barks: "You've heard of Madame Pompadour, you've heard of Madame DuBarry. Now dig Madame Curie, the greatest madame of them all!" From their turkey Bonanza Bound, they resurrect Inspiration, which credits women with inspiring great men through the ages. "That's enough of that Oriental stuff," cries Betty as Composer Rimsky-Korsakov's wife. "Just look around you in your own backyard." Suddenly she sees a backyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: A Party for Friends | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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