Known for her creative partnership with fellow lyricist and playwright Adolph Green for more than six decades, Betty Comden was an American actress, lyricist, author, librettist and screenwriter. She made her debut with Green in 1947 as screenwriters on the Oscar nominated musical-comedy, Good News. Since then Comden, in tow with Green, worked on movies like The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), On the Town (1949), The Band Wagon (1953), It's Always Fair Weather (1955), Auntie Mame (1958), Bells Are Ringing (1960) and What a Way to Go! (1964). Throughout an eventful career, Comden is still best known for working on the story of the musical-comedy, Singin' in the Rain (1952). She also worked as a lyricist on the movie. Comden was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980. In 1991 she received the Kennedy Center Honors. Comden married Siegfried Schutzman in 1942. He passed away in 1979 and Comden never remarried. Comden passed away on November 23, 2006, due to heart failure.