Warwick in English and Gloria Estefan in Spanish, and a version of the duet "Till I Loved You" was a top 40 single for Barbra Streisand and Don Johnson. Carr continued his work in theater, sponsoring the 1984-85 Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Cyrano de Bergerac and Much Ado About Nothing at Washington's Kennedy Center and Broadway's Gershwin Theatre, earning 10 Tony nominations between them including one more for Carr. Carr had returned to Paramount Pictures to handle the re-release of Grease in 1998, which included producing a VH1 television special of the twentieth anniversary Hollywood "premiere" screening and party, and special edition re-releases of the video, DVD, and soundtrack album. Production filmography Carr was a producer of numerous movies, including: The First Time (1969) C.C. and Company (1970) Grease (1978) Can't Stop the Music (1980) Grease 2 (1982) Where the Boys Are '84 (1984) Cloak & Dagger (1984) Personal life and death Carr died on June 29, 1999, in Beverly Hills, California from liver cancer. At the time of his death, he split his time between his homes in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs, and was working on bringing Ken Ludwig's Tony-winning comedy Lend Me a Tenor to Australia and the UK, and was preparing a new Broadway show, The New Musical Adventures of Tom Sawyer. His ashes were scattered at sea by Ann-Margret, Roger Smith, and Martin Menard in front of his former Diamond Head estate on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. In 2017, a documentary about Carr's life was released entitled The Fabulous Allan Carr. The film's director, Jeffrey Schwarz, said, "Although it was no secret that Allan Carr was gay, he never formally acknowledged it publicly. The word 'flamboyant' was used to describe him, a code word." References External links The infamous 1989 opening of the Oscars on YouTube The same opening also on Vimeo 1937 births 1999 deaths Film producers from New York (state) American male screenwriters American male television actors Television producers from New York City LGBT television producers Jewish American screenwriters LGBT Jews Gay entertainers American LGBT businesspeople American LGBT actors LGBT people from California LGBT people from Illinois American theatre managers and producers LGBT theatre managers and producers Deaths from cancer in California Deaths from liver cancer Lake Forest College alumni Male actors from Chicago Writers from Chicago Tony Award winners 20th-century American male actors 20th-century American businesspeople Screenwriters from Illinois Screenwriters