Marilyn Bergman, the Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with husband Alan Bergman on The Way We Were, How Do You Keep the Music Playing? and hundreds of other songs, died at her Los Angeles home Saturday.
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.
Besides her husband, Bergman is survived by their daughter, Julie Bergman.
Marilyn Bergman became the first woman elected to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and later served as the chair and president.