 Comden and Green provided the story and screenplay; the songs were hits from the late 1920s and early 1930s by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown.They followed this with another hit, "The Band Wagon", in which the characters of Lester and Lily, a husband-and-wife musical-writing team, were patterned after themselves.They were Oscar-nominated twice, for their screenplays for "The Band Wagon" and "It's Always Fair Weather".