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| | E! Online News - Songwriter Burton Lane Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | One of the greats of Hollywood and Broadway show tunes, Burton Lane, died Sunday at 84 in New York, after a battle with cancer. |
 | | In fact, he was credited with starting Garland's movie career after spotting her singing at a Hollywood nightspot. |
 | | Lane is best known for two Broadway musicals, Finian's Rainbow (with such classic songs as "How Are Things in Glocca Morra") which Francis Ford Coppola made into a movie in 1968, and On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, filmed in 1970 with Barbra Streisand. |
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