That show, "On the Town, " opened in 1944 and became Comden and Green's first Broadway hit.
Green played a sailor named Ozzie, and Comden an anthropologist named Claire de Loon.
Ms. COMDEN: (Singing) Fame, if you win it, comes and goes in a minute.
Ms. BETTY COMDEN (Songwriter): Adolph used to come every day to meet with me.
Ms. COMDEN: Writing is what we do mainly and we've been writing together for many, many years.
Ms. COMDEN: (As Claire de Loon) (Singing) I try hard to stay controlled, but I get carried away.
Ms. COMDEN: (Singing) Gone with the Wind, Scarlet O'Hara's a spoiled pet, she wants everything that she can get.
Betty Comden died of heart failure on Thursday at the age of 89.
Ms. COMDEN: Adolph brought Lenny down one night to watch us and then he came again and again and again.
In that movie, Comden and Green mined comic gold out of the transition from silent film to talkies in Hollywood.
She was half of the legendary Broadway and Hollywood writing team, Comden and Green - Adolph Green, who died in 2002.
Ms. COMDEN: Actually, the only chance we get to do our own material is when we do it at a party.
Ms. COMDEN: (As Claire de Loon) (Singing) But carried away, carried away.
Ms. COMDEN: (Singing) Once you hold him, fill your world around him.
Another favorite Comden and Green collaborator was composer Jule Styne, with whom they wrote "Bells are Ringing" and "Peter Pan, " among many other shows.
Beginning in the 1950s, they presented a stage show called "A Party with Comden and Green, " which they trotted out from time to time, telling stories and singing their songs.
And while they were never romantically involved - both had long happy marriages to other people - Betty Comden told NPR in 2003 that she and Adolph Green had a set routine over the course of their more than 60-year collaboration.
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