Singin' in the Rain - Betty Comden 1952 Screen Writers' Guild Award Medal

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[Singin' in the Rain] Comden, Betty. (1917–2006)
1952 Screen Writers' Guild Award for Best Written American Musical
Silvered metal medallion awarded to Betty Comden, one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, for her work on the screenplay for the classic 1952 musical
Singin' in the Rain
.  To recto, the Screen Writers' Guild emblem, with the verso engraved "Fifth Annual Award / 1952 / Betty Comden / 'Singin' in the Rain'/ Best Written American Musical," housed in a fitted velvet lined case.  Losses to the silvering and tarnished areas, else fine.  3.5 inch diameter (8.5 cm.).
Comden and Green were hired by Arthur Freed at MGM to write the screenplay for a musical using songs from MGM's considerable back catalogue.  "
We walked into Arthur's office, and he said, 'Well,
kids, your next movie is going to be called
Singin' in the Rain
, and it is going to have all my songs in it,'" Comden said in a 2002 interview with the
Michigan Quarterly Review
.  "And that was that.  That was the
whole
assignment.  And it may not sound very difficult, but it was terribly hard to do, almost impossible...[Y]
ou have to create a whole new story with characters and situations that fit the already existing songs.  It's like working backwards.
"  It took the writing team some time to to figure out an appropriate era for the songs they'd been given, before realizing that the best option was the time period around when the songs had been written, "the changeover period in Hollywood from the silents to the talkies, when Arthur Freed and his partner, Nacio Herb Brown, wrote many of their songs for the early film musicals."  Despite only moderate commercial success upon its release,
Singin' in the Rain
has become one of the most beloved and acclaimed Hollywood musicals of all.  In 1989, it was one of the first 25 films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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