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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

A spectacular shot by Gordon Parks from December 1956: Alan Jay Lerner & Frederik Loewe hard at work. My Fair Lady opened on Broadway on March 15, 1956, so they may have already started work on Gigi. That's Lerner's third wife (of eight!), actress Nancy Olson, behind him.

The two collaborators work together in Lerner's book-lined study. Olsen reads a book, with her back to Lerner.
aug 31, 2025, 11:32 pm • 1 0

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

Alan Jay Lerner with his eighth, & final, wife, Liz Robertson. 📷 Tom Wargacki, London, 1983 "All I can say is that if I had no flair for marriage, I also had no flair for bachelorhood."

Lerner in a tuxedo, arm in arm with his wife in a red dress.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

Alan Jay Lerner with his writing partner Frederick Loewe, in a Yousuf Karsh portrait, made April 10, 1959 "The names Lerner and Loewe were linked at the top of the entertainment world for more than a quarter of a century." - Richard Pearson

The two sit together at the piano
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social

Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe by Boris Chaliapin, 1960 "The arts of the theater unite to make an enchanting modern comment on the legendary past." - Howard Taubman youtube.com/watch?v=Rr3q...

Painting of the two sitting on Camelot-style thrones
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