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Pick Yourself Up - Dorothy Fields and the American Musical (Paperback)
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Pick Yourself Up - Dorothy Fields and the American Musical (Paperback)
Series: Broadway Legacies
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Famed lyricist Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four
hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as "On the Sunny Side of
the Street," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, " and "The Way
You Look Tonight." In Pick Yourself Up, Charlotte Greenspan offers
the most complete treatment of Fields's life and work to date,
tracing her rise to prominence in a male-dominated world. Born in
1904 into a show business family - her father, Lou Fields, was a
famed stage comedian turned Broadway producer - Fields first teamed
with songwriter Jimmy McHugh in the late 1920s and went on to a
series of Hollywood collaborations with Jerome Kern, including the
Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classic Swing Time. With her brother
Herbert, she co-authored the books for several of Cole Porter's
shows and for Irving Berlin's classic Annie Get Your Gun. Fields's
lyrics - colloquial, urbane, sometimes slangy, sometimes sensuous -
won her high praise from later generations of songwriters including
Stephen Sondheim, and her stellar career opened a path for other
women in her profession, among them Betty Comden and Dory Previn.
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