Burt Barcharach was born on May 12, He celebrated his 92nd birthday in His mother was an amateur painter and songwriter who helped Burt learn piano during his childhood. His second marriage was to actress Angie Dickinson, lasting for 15 years from to The couple had a child, a daughter named Nikki Bacharach.
Nikki struggled with mental health problems and died by suicide in , aged Burt's third marriage was to songwriter Carole Bayer Sager from to He then married another actress, Angie Dickinson, in Together they had a daughter, Nikki Bacharach.
But she always did like to test the limits. Together they adopted a son. Bacharach married his current wife, athlete Jane Hansen, who is 32 years his junior, in Burt Bacharach's wife is Jane Hansen. Warren Beatty Mickey Rooney Barbra Streisand Goldie Hawn Mia Farrow John Wayne Sir John Gielgud Danny Kaye Jane Hansen's husband is Burt Bacharach.
The real romance between Marlene and me took place onstage. Even during the period when I was spending a lot of time out on the road with Marlene, I would always come back to New York as soon as the tour was over and start writing songs again in the Brill Building with Hal David. Right from the first time I ever saw Dionne, I thought she had a very special kind of grace and elegance. She had really high cheekbones and long legs, and she was wearing sneakers and her hair was in pigtails. The more Hal and I worked with her, the more we saw what she could do.
Dionne could sing that high and she could sing that low. She could sing that strong and she could sing that loud, yet she could also be soft and delicate. To me, her voice had all the delicacy and mystery of sailing ships in bottles. The record made it to No 3, but its real significance is that after Hal and I wrote it, we stopped working with other people.
After 11 years together, we decided to get married as songwriters and only work with one another. The way Dionne felt about Angie was nothing compared to what I had to go through with Marlene.
All the press guys wanted to get a picture of them, because they both had great legs — Angie had gotten hers insured for a million dollars — so they had their photograph taken together.
After I stopped conducting for Marlene, I wrote some arrangements for her before she went off on a tour of South Africa. Not just Angie. While Marlene was in South Africa, she had voodoo dolls made up to look like Angie and put pins in them. It was May, Angie and I had been married for maybe five days and she went off to shoot The Chase.
I wound up in London. I went to see Marlene at the Dorchester and what I saw was the other side of her, the not-smart side. She still wanted me in her life to write arrangements and conduct for her whenever I could, but when I went up to her suite to play her some new arrangements so we could see what they sounded like, she just let loose. How could you have done such a thing!
I was really puzzled. I had always thought Marlene was too smart to ever do anything like this. I mean, she had just crucified Angie in every possible way. After a while, Marlene and I got over what had happened at the Dorchester that night, and whenever she would come over to the house where Angie and I were living for dinner, which was usually Kentucky Fried Chicken, potatoes and coleslaw, the dance the two of them would do was unbelievable.
Even though I probably should never have told Angie what Marlene had said about her at the Dorchester, I had already done that. Angie never did that. But the performances that went on when these two actresses got together were really something to see. By the time Angie and I met, I was really getting somewhere. At a time when no one under the age of 25 wanted to listen to the music their parents liked, the songs Hal David and I were writing seemed to appeal to both generations.
The album was going to be called The Hitmaker. I went to London to make it. I remember being at the console and this one guy kept taking pictures of me.
Angie and I found a flat off Belgrave Square, where I watched a rough cut of the film over and over again. The picture came out, and that was a huge hit, and we were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in I had already been through all this three times before and then gone home depressed, but when I walked in there with Angie for the ceremony that night, I was very excited.
I was also scared, because I thought we had such a great chance to win.
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