Broadway Scenes Remembered: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
…e Reynolds, was directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen and produced by Arthur Freed. Comden and Green had been two of the writers who were part of the Freed Unit at MGM in the mid-40s and had worked with the producer on numerous projects, including the film version of On the Town. In 1950, when they were back in New York, Freed called on them to do a new project. Freed, a lyricist, and his writing partner, composer Nacio Herb Brown, had a catalogue o…