Oscar-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman dies aged 93
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Marilyn Bergman, the Oscar-winning lyricist who co-wrote The Way We Were and hundred of other songs, has died aged 93.

Bergman died at her home in Los Angeles of respiratory failure, which her representative says was not related to Covid-19.

Her husband, Alan Bergman, who she also had a successful song-writing partnership with, was at her bedside when she died.

The couple, who married in 1958, specialised in introspective ballads for film, television and stage in their enduring partnership, and their songs were covered by some of the world’s biggest singers including Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson.Among their most famous works were The Way We Were, from the Streisand and Robert Redford romantic drama of the same name, Stephen Bishop’s It Might Be You from Tootsie and Noel Harrison’s The Windmills Of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair.

The Bergmans won three Oscars for The Way We Were, Windmills Of Your Mind and the soundtrack to Streisand’s Yentl, and received 16 nominations, three of them in 1983 alone.

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