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	Great Performances . Artists . Dorothy Fields \| PBS
		Dorothy Fields was the first woman to break into the all-male club of American songwriters.
		Fields, Dorothy (July 15, 1905 - Mar. 28, 1974), lyricist and librettist, was born in Allenhurst, N.J., the daughter of Lew M. Fields and Rose Harris.
		Dorothy Fields graduated in 1923 from the Benjamin Franklin School for Girls in New York City, where she excelled at English, drama, and basketball, and had her poems published in the school's literary magazine.
	www.pbs.org /search/wnet_gperf/redir/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/songbook/multimedia/bio_fields.html (360 words)

	JWA - "This Day in History" - July 15, 1904
		Dorothy Fields, who wrote lyrics to over 400 songs over half a century, was born on July 15, 1904.
		Raised in New Jersey, Fields was the daughter of Lew Fields, half of the well-known Weber and Fields vaudeville team.
		In a field in which the names of Jewish men from George and Ira Gershwin to Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim are ubiquitous, Fields made her mark with some of the American musical theater's most memorable songs.
	www.jwa.org /this_week/07/15/Dorothy_Fields (426 words)

	The Overtown Collective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Fields is being awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities for her unprecedented research and documentation of African-American history.
		Fields' maternal family moved to Overtown from the Bahamas in 1903 and immediately became an integral part of the fabric of South Florida's history themselves.
		Fields' grandfather, in fact, was one of the gardeners who planted the original gardens at the Deering Estate, Villa Vizcaya, in 1914.
	www.floridacdc.org /members/overtown/fields2.htm (521 words)

	Dorothy Fields - Biography - AOL Music
		Oscar-winning American pop lyricist Dorothy Fields was the first woman to be elected into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, in recognition of her long and successful career of hit songs, movie scores, and Broadway scores that spanned the late '20s through the early '70s.
		Dorothy Fields' most highly regarded collaborative work was that done with composer Jimmy McHugh; they were a songwriting team from 1929 until 1935.
		Fields also served as co-librettist with her brother, Herbert, for many Broadway shows, including Up in Central Park (1945), Arms and the Girl (1951), By the Beautiful Sea, and Redhead (1959), which won six Tony Awards.
	music.aol.com /artist/dorothy-fields/75915/biography (321 words)

	NPR : Dorothy Fields' Sweet, Various Gifts to Popular Song
		Nor did Fields burn brightly only to fade away: Her career stretched for nearly 50 years, as prolific as it was long and successful.
		"A Dorothy Fields lyric is marked by this kind of surprising, sophisticated wit and this elegant turn of phrase," Fields biographer Deborah Grace Winer tells Jeff Lunden.
		Dorothy Fields died in 1974 after attending a rehearsal for one of her shows.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4754087 (403 words)

	Broadway: The American Musical . Stars Over Broadway . Dorothy Fields \| PBS
		Fields later referred to herself as "Mills Music's fifty-dollars-a-night girl," because she was paid 50 dollars for each lyric she composed.
		Fields collaborated with her brother and composer Morton Gould on the lackluster "Arms and the Girl" in 1950.
		Fields' professional longevity, rare for a songwriter in the popular field, may be attributed to her undimming imagination and her willingness to adapt to changing trends in the musical theater.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/broadway/stars/fields_d.html (1093 words)

	Dorothy Fields Biography and Summary
		As the only major woman lyricist of the golden age of American popular song and musical theater, Dorothy Fields stood virtually alone among men for almost fifty years after she began her career in the 1920s, writing lyrics for Harlem's Cotton Club revues...
		Dorothy Fields(July 15, 1905- March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist who wrote well over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films.
		She had great talent to match colloquial every–day speech to complex scores, and was, along with A...
	www.bookrags.com /Dorothy_Fields (124 words)

	ASCAP Playback Magazine
		Fields, a lifelong New Yorker, made her initial mark writing for the legendary Cotton Club revues of the 1920s, with Broadway and Hollywood success to follow, success that continued into the 1970s.
		The team of Weber and Fields were major vaudeville headliners in the 1890s and early 20th Century, and were theater owners, as well.
		The bottom line on Cy and Dorothy was her joy at being able to work with someone at her level and be able to produce as much stuff as they did.
	www.ascap.com /playback/2005/spring/heritage_gold.html (685 words)

	Dorothy Fields b
		Dorothy Fields’ parents were Lew and Rose, better known as the famous comedy team, Weber And Fields.
		In the same year, McHugh and Fields’ next effort, HELLO DADDY, proved to be a family affair, with Fields’ brother Herbert as librettist, and her father as the producer and leading man, although the show's comedy hit number, In A Great Big Way, was sung by Billy Taylor.
		Dorothy Fields’ last two Broadway scores were written with Cy Coleman, a composer who was 25 years her junior.
	www.centrohd.com /bio/bio16/dorothy_fields_b.htm (1243 words)

	indielondon.co.uk - theatre - Dorothy Fields Forever
		I FIRST met the late Dorothy Fields in the early 1970s through Maurice Levine who was MD for Broadway musicals and the producer of a series of evenings at the 92nd Street Y called Lyrics and Lyricists.
		For those who have little knowledge of Dorothy Fields, she was born into a theatrical family, and was dissuaded from following in their footsteps.
		Dorothy Fields Forever, a celebration of the lyrics of Dorothy Fields, Devised and Directed by David Kernan, Co-devised and written by Eden Phillips.
	www.indielondon.co.uk /theatre/t_dorothy_fields_rev.html (739 words)

	The Sunny Side of the Street: The Lyrics of Dorothy Fields
		Born in New Jersey in 1905, Fields was the only woman ever to achieve wide success as a songwriter during the golden age of the American musical.
		Her father, Lew Fields, was a Vaudeville star and producer in the 1910s.
		Dorothy settled for writing song lyrics, a profession her father considered un-ladylike.
	www.riverwalk.org /proglist/showpromo/dorothy_fields.htm (710 words)

	Field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Field (mathematics), one of a class of objects studied in abstract algebra, in which one can add, subtract, multiply, and divide
		Field (computer science), a smaller piece of data from a larger collection (eg, database fields)
		Field Gallery, a gallery that was part of the Portland millennial art renaissance
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fields (321 words)

	Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Her father was Lew Fields, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, who found fame as one half of Weber and Fields vaudeville act, one of the most popular comedy teams at the end of the Nineteenth.
		So when Dorothy Fields was born on July 15, 1905 in Allenhurst, New Jersey, one would think she had the ideal connections for the career she dreamed of as an actress.
		Fields also began writing books for musicals as well as lyrics, in collaboration with her brother Herbert Fields.
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=65 (671 words)

	Who's Who in Musicals: F
		As a rule, Dorothy and her collaborators would agree on the title and general content of a song – then they created the music to which she would fashion the words.
		He and sister Dorothy then began a fifteen year string of musical comedies with songwriter Cole Porter, providing the witty libretti for Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), The New Yorkers (1930), DuBarry Was a Lady (1939), Let's Face It (1941) and Something for the Boys (1943).
		Weber and Fields became vaudeville's definitive "Dutch" act (a corruption of the German word "deutsch.") Weber once said that "all the public wanted to see was Fields knock the hell out of me." Combining topical humor with slapstick physical battles, they became one of the all-time top vaudeville acts, inspiring numerous imitators.
	www.musicals101.com /who3.htm (3785 words)

	Dorothy Fields Forever - July 12, 2005 - The New York Sun
		Both Dorothy Fields and her most important collaborator, Jimmy McHugh, are in it.
		Fields is hardly unsung, for instance, compared to the equally worthy McHugh (1894-1969).
		Fields was not only one of the few veteran lyricists to master the new Broadway, she was virtually the only prominent writer from the 1920s still crafting meaningful new music 50 years later.
	www.nysun.com /article/16812 (428 words)

	Dorothy Fields - a potted biography
		Dorothy Fields' father was Lew Fields, the bully-boy half of Weber and Fields, a highly successful 'Dutch comic' act on the vaudeville circuit.
		In the year she was born, Lew Fields had a row with his long-time partner an quit the stage.
		By the time Dorothy was attending the Benjamin School for Girls her father was a producer of musicals with friends including Cole Porter Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II.
	www.nodanw.com /biographies/dorothy_fields.htm (662 words)

	Morag McLaren - Shows and Press Comment
		Dorothy Fields was a remarkable and prolific lyricist and librettist who, in a career spanning more than 45 years, penned over 400 songs from the Broadway 'Fugue' Rhythm of Life to the Academy Award Winning The Way You Look Tonight.
		Her words came from the heart in a language that is sophisticated yet unpretentious, touching but humorous, and which speaks to people in all walks of life.
		The show was a celebration of one of the greatest American lyricists, Dorothy Fields, whose career spanned the late '20's to the early '70's.
	www.moragmclaren.com /bigspen.htm (589 words)

	Dorothy Fields -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Fields was the daughter of Lew M. Fields of the vaudeville comedy team of Weber and Fields.
		The first person to receive this prize was Dorothy Pulis Lathrop, who won for her illustrations for Animals of the Bible.
		The playing field is 100 yards long and 60 yards wide, and the most common playing surface is grass.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9125722?tocId=9125722&query=dorothy (642 words)

	Dorothy Fields (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A Fields lyric is always meticulously crafted yet retains the easy fresh natural flow of colloquial speech.
		Her language is precisely the language a person would use expressing a feeling, even if it weren't sung or rhymed - yet the rhyme schemes are scrupulous and the structures impeccable.
		Concealing the art may be the highest skill in the craft of lyric-writing.
	www.dorothyfields.co.uk (61 words)

	Fort Tours \| Mrs. Dorothy Fields
		One effort involved Dorothy Field, who had been carried off in Satanta's raid to the Menard area in 1864.
		In a letter to her husband, Tatum admitted he had no word on her but hoped to acquire information from the Apaches who were due in soon.
		It was never learned what happened to Dorothy Field, although her relatives were still inquiring for her at the Fort Sill agency in 1872.
	www.forttours.com /pages/tocfield.asp (595 words)

	Playbill News: ON THE RECORD: Three by Dorothy Fields and Ted Chapin's Follies
		Dorothy Fields (1905-1974) is generally acclaimed as Broadway's first woman lyricist, or at least Broadway's first important woman lyricist.
		When Fields came along in her early twenties in the late twenties, two of Broadway's most successful lyricist-librettists were women.
		Dorothy Donnelly (1880-1928) had even more success, although her career was truncated.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/81981.html (2689 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Dorothy Fields
		She also wrote for film, including the movie Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, for which she was the first female lyricist to win an Oscar.
		Martha asks actress Angela Richards and Dorothy Fields' expert, Jon Aldous, how she came to be such a success and why we don't know more about her.
		Dorothy Fields Forever opens at the Kings Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street Islington, London on June 11 - 21 July.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/03_06_02/thursday/info2.shtml (112 words)

	Playbill News: Stritch, Wilson and Ziemba to Celebrate Dorothy Fields March 19-21
		Dorothy’s Side of the Street will be presented at the famed Y March 19-21.
		Born in 1905 Dorothy Fields became the first woman inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
		Fields collaborated with a host of popular composers, including Jimmy McHugh, Oscar Levant, Jerome Kern, Arthur Schwartz, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Cy Coleman and Quincy Jones, writing scores for more than 50 films, Broadway musicals and revues.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/91510.html (383 words)

	Dorothy Fields (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The musical tribute show Dorothy Fields Forever is to return to The King's Head Theatre in Islington for four more weeks after delighting audiences and critics alike throughout the summer.
		Dorothy Fields Forever is devised and directed by David Kernan and co-devised and written by Eden Phillips.
		And Dorothy Fields wrote some of the greatest shows, films and songs of the last century.
	www.kingsheadtheatre.org /arc-shows/dorothyfields.htm (1031 words)

	Dorothy Fields (1905 - 1974) - famous Dorothy Fields Classics hit collection and Dorothy Fields Music Reviews. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Dorothy Fields came from a prominent show business family and became a brilliant lyricist in a male-dominated profession.
		Fields’ lyrics for the hit songs “Big Spender” and “If My Friends Could See Me Now” display her knack for capturing colloquial speech.
		Fields was the first woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/2705.htm (357 words)

	NYPL, Programs at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
		The series title, "Merely Marvelous," is one of Dorothy Fields's song titles from the show Redhead, for which she wrote book and lyrics.
		The Dorothy Fields Papers, donated to The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts by her family, are housed in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection.
		Songwriter/jazz pianist David Lahm, the son of Dorothy Fields, and his wife, cabaret singer Judy Kreston, will perform songs by Fields as well as songs by Lahm.
	www.nypl.org /research/calendar/prog/lpa/pseries.cfm?id=117 (427 words)

	Dorothy Fields Forever Eyes Off-Broadway, Broadway.com Buzz
		The musical Dorothy Fields Forever, which celebrates the life of the famed lyricist, is aiming for a New York debut at an off-Broadway house this season, according to a production representative.
		Dorothy Fields Forever celebrates the life and work of Fields, the lyricist behind 500 songs, 19 Broadway shows and 30 Hollywood films including Swing Time, Annie Get Your Gun and Sweet Charity.
		Songs in Dorothy Fields Forever include "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I'm in the Mood for Love," "A Fine Romance," "Big Spender," "The Way Your Look Tonight" and "I Won't Dance." Dorothy Fields Forever is devised and directed by David Kernan and co-devised and written by Eden Phillips.
	www.broadway.com /gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?CI=20020 (456 words)

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