Fields working with Arthur Schwartz on A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951)
Born
(1904-07-15)July 15, 1904
Allenhurst, New Jersey, U.S.
Died
March 28, 1974(1974-03-28) (aged 69)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Librettist and lyricist
Spouse
Eli Lahm (married 1939)
Parent
Lew Fields
Relatives
Joseph Fields (brother) Herbert Fields (brother)
Musical career
Musical artist
Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1904[1] – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote more than 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Her best-known pieces include "The Way You Look Tonight" (1936), "A Fine Romance" (1936), "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (1930), "Don't Blame Me" (1948), "Pick Yourself Up" (1936), "I'm in the Mood for Love" (1935), "You Couldn't Be Cuter" (1938) and "Big Spender" (1966). Throughout her career, she collaborated with various influential figures in the American musical theater, including Jerome Kern, Cy Coleman, Irving Berlin, and Jimmy McHugh. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood female songwriters.
DorothyFields (July 15, 1904 – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote more than 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films...
Schwartz and Howard Dietz, 1932) Alone Too Long (Arthur Schwartz and DorothyFields, 1954) Along the Santa Fe Trail (Hugh Williams and Al Dubin, Edwina...
Kim Victoria Fields-Morgan (née Fields, formerly Freeman; born May 12, 1969) is an American actress and director. She first gained fame as a child actress...
Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by DorothyFields and book by Neil Simon. It was directed and choreographed for Broadway by...
musical Sweet Charity, written by composer Cy Coleman and lyricist DorothyFields. In the musical, the song is performed by the character Big Daddy, the...
George Gershwin but also the lyrics of writers such as Ira Gershwin, DorothyFields, Otto Harbach, and Oscar Hammerstein II. For example, Sondheim notes...
Dream Too Much" - lyrics by DorothyFields - from the 1935 film of the same name "I Got Love" - lyrics by DorothyFields - from the 1935 film of the same...
Living in Paris, and she made her Broadway debut in the Cy Coleman and DorothyFields musical Seesaw. As an actress, McBroom has had guest-starring or recurring...
and lyrics were written by Berlin, with a book by Herbert Fields and his sister DorothyFields, and directed by Joshua Logan. At first Berlin refused to...
Jerome Kern with lyrics written by DorothyFields. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. Fields remarked, "The first time Jerry played...
stars. Songs in the film were written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by DorothyFields. The film is based on a 1914 novel, Love Insurance by Earl Derr Biggers...
the Street" is a 1930 song composed by Jimmy McHugh with lyrics by DorothyFields. Some authors say that Fats Waller was the composer, but he sold the...
1940 movie Lillian Russell. Lew Fields died in Beverly Hills, California on July 20, 1941. Fields was the father of Dorothy, Herbert and Joseph, all of whom...
song "The Way You Look Tonight", written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by DorothyFields, which Astaire sang to Rogers. John Mueller has cited Swing Time for...
on 57th Street, New York with songs written by Jimmy McHugh and DorothyFields. Fields recalled, "Lew Leslie (the producer) hired us to do a show called...
, Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, DorothyFields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and Yip Harburg. A native New Yorker, Kern...
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