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Adolph Green

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As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.


— Adolph Green


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I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.


— Adolph Green


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It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues.


— Adolph Green


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It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.


— Adolph Green


#just #never #songwriters #unfortunate

We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.


— Adolph Green


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We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.


— Adolph Green


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You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.


— Adolph Green


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Did you know about Adolph Green?

After high school he worked as a runner on Wall Street while he tried to make it as an actor. They had two children Adam and Amanda. They formed a troupe called the Revuers which performed at the Village Vanguard a club in Greenwich Village.

Many people thought the pair were married; they were not but they shared a unique comic genius and sophisticated wit that enabled them to forge a six-decade-long partnership that produced some of Hollywood and Broadway's greatest hits.

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