Marvin Frederick Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor.
33 Facts About Marvin Hamlisch
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Marvin Hamlisch was born in Manhattan, to Viennese-born Jewish parents Lilly and Max Marvin Hamlisch.
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Marvin Hamlisch was a child prodigy; by age five, he began mimicking the piano music he heard on the radio.
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Marvin Hamlisch attended Queens College, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967.
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Liza Minnelli's 1964 debut album included "The Travelin' Life", a song Marvin Hamlisch wrote in his teens.
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Marvin Hamlisch's first hit arrived when he was 21 years old: "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows", co-written with Howard Liebling and recorded by Lesley Gore.
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Marvin Hamlisch wrote music for several early Woody Allen films, including Take the Money and Run and Bananas.
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Marvin Hamlisch and Liebling co-wrote the song "California Nights", which was recorded by Lesley Gore for her 1967 hit album of the same name.
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Marvin Hamlisch had great success in 1973, winning two Academy Awards for the title song and the score for the motion picture The Way We Were and an Academy Award for the adaptation score for The Sting.
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Marvin Hamlisch won four Grammy Awards in 1974, two for "The Way We Were".
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Marvin Hamlisch co-wrote "Nobody Does It Better" for The Spy Who Loved Me with his then-girlfriend Carole Bayer Sager, which would be nominated for an Oscar.
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Marvin Hamlisch received an Academy Award nomination in 1986 for the film version of A Chorus Line.
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Marvin Hamlisch acted as both straight man and accompanist while Marx, at age 81, reminisced about his career in show business.
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Marvin Hamlisch then composed the scores for the 1975 Broadway musical A Chorus Line, for which he won both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize; and for the 1978 musical They're Playing Our Song, loosely based on his relationship with Carole Bayer Sager.
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Shortly before his death, Marvin Hamlisch finished scoring a musical theatre version of The Nutty Professor, based on the 1963 film.
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Marvin Hamlisch was musical director and arranger of Barbra Streisand's 1994 concert tour of the US and England as well as of the television special, Barbra Streisand: The Concert, for which he received two of his Emmys.
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Marvin Hamlisch conducted several tours of Linda Ronstadt during this period, most notably on her successful 1996 Dedicated to the One I Love tour of arenas and stadiums.
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Marvin Hamlisch held the position of Principal Pops Conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, The National Symphony Orchestra Pops, The Pasadena Symphony and Pops, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
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On July 23,2011, Marvin Hamlisch conducted his debut concert for Pasadena Symphony and Pops at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
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Marvin Hamlisch is one of only 18 people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.
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Marvin Hamlisch is one of only two people to have won those four prizes and a Pulitzer Prize.
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Marvin Hamlisch is one of ten people to win three or more Oscars in one night and the only one other than a director or screenwriter to do so.
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Marvin Hamlisch earned ten Golden Globe Award nominations, winning twice for Best Original Song, with "Life Is What You Make It" in 1972 and "The Way We Were" in 1974.
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Marvin Hamlisch shared the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976 with Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, and Edward Kleban for his musical contribution to the original Broadway production of A Chorus Line.
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Marvin Hamlisch received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 at the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent, Belgium.
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Marvin Hamlisch was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
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In 2008, Marvin Hamlisch was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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In 1974, Marvin Hamlisch became the second person to win three Academy Awards in the same evening, following Billy Wilder in 1961.
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Marvin Hamlisch was in a relationship with actress Emma Samms.
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Marvin Hamlisch was in a relationship with television personality Cyndy Garvey after her breakup with her husband, Steve Garvey.
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In May 1989, Marvin Hamlisch married Terre Blair, a native of Columbus, Ohio and graduate of Otterbein College, who was the weather and news anchor for that city's ABC affiliate, WSYX-Channel 6.
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Barbra Streisand released a statement praising Marvin Hamlisch, stating it was "his brilliantly quick mind, his generosity and delicious sense of humor that made him a delight to be around".
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Marvin Hamlisch was the primary conductor for the Pittsburgh Pops from 1995 until his death.