# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-fields
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:12:54.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-fields"
name: "Dorothy Fields"
slug: "dorothy-fields"
description: "Dorothy Fields 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, Arthur Schwartz, 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."
tagline: "American librettist and lyricist (1905-1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dorothy_Fields_NYWTS_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1905-07-15"
deathDate: "1974-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump