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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.
Cover13; -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- A Note about the Lyrics -- 1: The World of Her Father -- 2: The World of Her Family -- 3: The Teen Years -- 4: Marriage and the Start of a Career -- 5: Whats Black and White and Heard All Over? -- 6: Give My Refrains to Broadway -- 7: Hello to Hollywood -- 8: Change Partners and Write -- 9: The Best of Hollywood -- 10: End of an Era -- 11: Hollywood through a Broadway Lens -- 12: Librettos Instead of Lyrics -- 13: Up in Central Park -- 14: Annie Get Your Gun -- 15: More Movies -- 16: Colonial America and Brooklyn -- 17: Something Old, Something New -- 18: Sweet Charity -- 19: 8220;Its Where You Finish ... 8221; -- Appendix 1: List of Songs -- Appendix 2: List of Theater Works and Movies -- Notes -- Index of Songs, Shows, and Movies -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Photos follow page.