Alan Bergman and Marilyn Keith Bergman were an American songwriting duo.
They were married from 1958 until Marilyn’s death and together they wrote music and lyrics for numerous celebrated television, film, and stage productions.
Marilyn Bergman Husband: Top Facts About Alan Bergman
Alan Bergman was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1925, to Ruth (Margulies), a homemaker and community volunteer, and Samuel Bergman, who worked in children’s clothing sales.
Alan Bergman studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned his master’s degree in music at UCLA.
In the early 1950s, Alan Bergman worked as a television director and songwriter at Philadelphia’s WCAU-TV.
Alan and Marilyn Bergman had both become collaborators with composer Lew Spence, and only met when Spence suggested they all work together.
Alan and Marilyn Bergman married in 1958, and had a daughter, Julie Bergman Sender, who works as an independent film producer.
The Bergmans teamed up with Marvin Hamlisch to write Barbra Streisand’s hit “The Way We Were” used in the film of the same name. The song was labeled by Turner Classic Movies’s Andrea Passafiume as “one of the most recognizable songs in the world”.
The Bergmans were also co-writers of “An American Reunion”, the opening ceremony of the inaugural festivities at Washington D.C.’s Lincoln Memorial that marked Bill Clinton’s first term as President of the United States in January 1993.
In 2007, Alan Bergman released his first album as a vocalist, Lyrically, Alan Bergman, featuring lyrics written by him and his wife and arranged by Alan Broadbent and Jeremy Lubbock.
In 2017, The Bergmans collaborated with playwright Josh Ravetch on Chasing Mem’ries: A Different Kind of Musical.