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- Name: MARVIN FREDERICK HAMLISCH
- English name: MARVIN FREDERICK HAMLISCH
- Native name: ---
- Alias: ['MARVIN HAMLISCH']
- Award: ['ACADEMY AWARD (OSCAR) FOR BEST MUSIC', 'ORIGINAL SONG 1974', 'BEST MUSIC', 'ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE 1974', 'BEST MUSIC', 'SCORING ORIGINAL SONG SCORE AND/OR ADAPTATION 1974']
Description: Musical talent ran in marvin hamlisch's family - his father was an accordionist, and at seven hamlisch was the youngest student ever accepted by manhattan's julliard school of music. hamlich furthered his education by taking night classes at queens college and working during the day as a rehearsal pianist for broadway shows. he eventually began composing songs for stage productions. in 1968 he met film producersam spiegel, resulting in his first film score forthe swimmer(1968) (he had previously written some songs for a low-budget teen epic,ski party(1965), but did not do the score for it). hamlisch became well versed in the very specialized field of film scoring. in addition to scoring films, he ventured into film production as co-producer ofthe entertainer(1975). in 1976 he won a tony award for his scoring of the broadway show,a chorus line(1985).
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