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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 1984-001", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18872", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1927-1973", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1927/1973"}
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1927
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1973
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1927
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{"value"=>"Dorothy Fields scripts"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Billy Rose Theatre Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Dorothy Fields (1905-1974) was an American lyricist and librettist, writing films, musicals and pop songs. The Dorothy Fields scripts contain scripts for plays and films written by Fields and her brother Herbert Fields."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Dorothy Fields scripts, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Fields, Dorothy, 1905-1974", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Dorothy Fields, lyricist and librettist, was born in Allenhurst on New Jersey, July 15, 1905. She was the daughter of Lew Fields, comedian and producer, and Rose (Harris) Shoenfeld. Her first well known song was \"I Can't Give You Anything But Love,\" which she wrote with James NcHugh in 1928. She collaborated extensively with her brother Herbert Fields, who also was a librettist. Their most famous production was \"Annie Get Your Gun,\" produced in 1946.</p> <p>Her other brother Joseph Fields was a dramatic actor, producer, and playwright. She was married in 1938 to Eli Lahm and they had two children, David and Eliza. She also collaborated with Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Signmund Romberg, Burton Lane, Arthur Schwartz, Fritz Kreisler, Norton Gould, Cy Coleman, Albert Hague, Oscar Levant,Harry Warren, and her son David Fields Lahm.</p> <p>Dorothy Fields is probably best known for having written the lyrics to Sweet Charity. She was a representative of the Dramatists' Guild on the Council of the Author's League of America; secretary of the Dramatists' Guild, and one of the few women members of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. She died in 1974 in New York City.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Dorothy Fields scripts consist mainly of scripts for musical plays and films with lyrics and/or librettos written by Dorothy Fields. Musicals written by Fields include A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951), Sweet Charity (1966) and Seesaw (1973). Some unproduced projects with lyrics by Fields are also here, such as Love Insurance, Keep It in the Family and A Smiling Spring.</p> <p>There are also scripts for the many musicals Fields wrote librettos for, in collaboration with her brother, Herbert Fields, such as Let's Face It (1941), Something for the Boys (1943), Mexican Hayride (1944), Annie Get Your Gun (1946), Up in Central Park (1947), Arms and the Girl (1950) and Redhead (1959). Fields also provided her own lyrics for some of these projects.</p> <p>Also here are projects written by Herbert Fields such as stage productions like Hit the Deck (1927), DuBarry Was a Lady (1939) and Panama Hattie (1940. His screenplays include The Hot Heiress (1931), Let's Fall in Love (1933), Mississippi (1935), People Will Talk (1935), Hands Across the Table (1935), Ship Cafe (1935) and Love Before Breakfast (1936).</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The Dorothy Fields scripts are arranged alphabetically, by title.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated to The New York Public Library, Billy Rose Theatre Collection in December, 1984 by Dorothy Fields's children, David Lahm and Eliza Lahm Oprava.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Compiled by Diana Bertolini.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Scripts were arranged in alphabetical order.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"archref\">Dorothy Fields papers, 1911-1977. Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library.</span>"}
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2.52 linear feet (6 boxes)
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1927
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1973