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And to receive this award from Michael Feinstein, who has done more than anyone to preserve the greatness of the past and insure its future, only deepens the pleasure of this honor. As successful songwriters, Alan and Marilyn Bergman have contributed to the Great American Songbook for more than five decades. In , Alan and Marilyn became the first songwriters to be nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Song of the five nominated songs.

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Alan and marilyn bergman biography channel

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Alan Bergman was born in Brooklyn, New York , in , the son of Ruth Margulies , a homemaker and community volunteer, and Samuel Bergman, who worked in children's clothing sales. Marilyn Bergman was born in , coincidentally at the same Brooklyn hospital where Alan had been born three years earlier, and was the daughter of Edith Arkin and Albert A. Both Alan and Marilyn are from Jewish families.

Johnny Mercer encouraged Alan to move to Los Angeles and become a professional songwriter. Despite the geographical proximity of their upbringing in New York, the Bergmans did not meet until they had both moved to Los Angeles in the late s. Marilyn had moved to California and was friends with songwriter Bob Russell and his wife, Anna, and later described "drifting into songwriting really by accident because I had a fall and broke my shoulder and couldn't play piano so I started writing lyrics".

Marilyn also felt that she lacked the discipline or talent required to become a concert pianist. The Bergmans had both become collaborators with composer Lew Spence, and only met when Spence suggested they all work together. The Bergmans married in , and had a daughter, Julie Bergman Sender, who works as an independent film producer. In , the Bergmans wrote their first title song for a motion picture, for The Right Approach , composed by Spence.

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