Dorothy Fields

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American librettist and lyricist (1905-1974)

United States WritersLived 1905 to 1974 · aged 68

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Dorothy Fields was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote more than 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films.

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Katharine Cornell, Aline MacMahon and Dorothy Fields serve soldiers played by Lon McCallister and Michael Harrison in the film Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Awards 2

1959Tony Award for Best Musical

1937Academy Award for Best Original Song

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FatherLew Fields

SiblingJoseph Fields

SiblingHerbert Fields

Connected to Dorothy 6

Michael O'SheaAlso in Something for the Boys (1944)

Florence RiceAlso in Father Takes a Wife (1941)

Tay GarnettAlso in Joy of Living (1938)

Ronnie CarrollAlso in Annie Get Your Gun (1967)

Selena RoyleAlso in Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Bruce YarnellAlso in Annie Get Your Gun (1967)

About this person

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.

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