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Teamed for most of his career with composer Frederick Loewe, he supplied the lyrics and books for a run of Broadway and film musicals that includes My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Gigi and Camelot — shows still revived worldwide six decades on. His work won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, an unusual double held by very few writers in American musical theatre.