Burt Bacharach The year 1969 marked, perhaps, the most successful Bacharach-David collaboration, the Oscar-winning "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head", written for and prominently featured in the acclaimed film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". The two were awarded a Grammy for Best Cast album of the year for "Promises, Promises" and the score was also nominated for a Tony award. Other Oscar nominations for Best Song in the latter half of the 1960s were for "The Look Of Love", "What's New Pussycat" and "Alfie". Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bacharach continued to write and produce for artists, compose for
Diana Hyland "The Chase" (1966) with Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and Robert Redford. In 1959, she originated the role on Broadway of Heavenly Finley in Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth", appearing with Geraldine Page and Paul Newman. In 1966, she co-starred in the movie "Smoky" in which she played Julie Richards, owner of the Rockin' R Ranch, who falls in love with Clint Barkeley (Fess Parker), owner of Smokey, a black stallion turned cutting horse. The same year she appeared in an episode of the TV series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." titled "The Candidate's Wife Affair". From 1958 to 1963, Hyland