Question: Marilyn Bergman: Oscar-winning lyricist dies .He was belong from which country ?
a) America
b) Japan
c) Australia
d) England
Ans:a
Related Facts :
- Marilyn Bergman, the Oscar winning lyricist who collaborated with her husband Alan on The Way We Were and hundreds more songs, has died aged 93.
- She died on Saturday (January 8,2022)at her Los Angeles home.
- The Bergmans were nominated for 16 Academy Award nominations, winning three times – for The Way We Were from the 1973 Barbra Streisand film of that name, Windmills of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968 and for their score for Streisand’s Yentl in 1983.
- the Bergmans wrote a swarm of durable popular standards, including Fred Astaire’s That Face (1957), Dean Martin’s Sleep Warm (1958) and the laidback title track of Frank Sinatra’s album Nice ’n’ Easy (1960), all of these in collaboration with the composer Lew Spence.
- Marilyn was born in New York, in the same Brooklyn hospital where Alan had been born three years earlier.
By Pawan Mishra
Links:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/12/marilyn-bergman-obituary