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Dorothy Fields

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. -Wikipedia

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Died 1974

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  • Cover of: Sweet Charity: Piano/Vocal Selections

    First published in 2007 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Annie get your gun: as a straight play without music

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  • Cover of: Annie get your gun: as a straight play without music, based on the original musical play

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  • Cover of: Annie get your gun.

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  • Cover of: Father takes a wife (1941): shooting script

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  • Cover of: Joy of living (1938): shooting script

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  • Cover of: Sheet Music- Sweet Charity Vocal Selections 1969

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  • Cover of: Annie Get Your Gun (the Applause Libretto Library)

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  • Cover of: Seesaw: a musical

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Born 1904
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Drama, Librettos, Love, Love songs, Love, literary collections, Miscellanea, Motion pictures, united states, Musical revues, comedies, Musicals, librettos, Piano music

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Annie Oakley (1860-1926)

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  • Fields, Dorothy, 1905-1974
  • Fields, Dorothy
  • Fields, Dorothy, 1904-1974
  • Dorothy Fields American librettist and lyricist (1905-1974)
  • פילדס, דורותי, 1905

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July 21, 2024 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
July 21, 2024 Edited by laurenbr1 updated dob to match some sources (left 1905 in the AKAs), akas, bio, link, photo
July 21, 2024 Edited by laurenbr1 Added new photo
September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import