With longtime writing and performing partner Betty Comden has created some of the snappiest and also some of the most poignant popular songs ("The Party's Over," "New York, New York [It's a Hell of a Town], "Make Someone Happy," "Never Never Land," "Just in Time"), has written the lyrics and/or book to classic Broadway musicals ("On the Town" 1944, "Wonderful Town" 1953, "Bells Are Ringing" 1956, "Halllujah, Baby!" 1967, "Applause" 1970, "On the Twentieth Century" 1978, and "The Will Rogers Follies" 1991) and has written the witty original screenplays for such memorable movie musicals as "Good
