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With Betty Comden, formed a six-decade Broadway and Hollywood writing partnership — not a romantic one, but a rare creative one — that began performing alongside Leonard Bernstein and produced On the Town, Wonderful Town, Bells Are Ringing, and, in Hollywood, the screenplay for Singin' in the Rain. The pair won four Tony Awards and shared a 1991 Kennedy Center Honor.