Pick Yourself Up : Dorothy Fields and the American Musical Paperback / softback
by Charlotte (, Ithaca, NY, United States) Greenspan
Part of the Broadway Legacies series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages, 22 illus.
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:31/01/2013
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- ISBN:9780199958634
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages, 22 illus.
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:31/01/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199958634
