Pick Yourself Up Dorothy Fields and the American Musical [Paperback]

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. InPick 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 classicSwing Time. With her brother Herbert, she co-authored the books for several of Cole Porter's shows and for Irving Berlin's classicAnnie 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.

Preface
A Note About the Lyrics
Chapter One: The World of Her Father
Chapter Two: The World of Her Family
Chapter Three: The Teen Years
Chapter Four: Marriage and the Start of a Career
Chapter Five: What's Black and White and Heard All Over?
Chapter Six: Give My Refrains to Broadway
Chapter Seven: Hello to Hollywood
Chapter Eight: Change Partners and Write
Chapter Nine: The Best of Hollywood
Chapter Ten: End of an Era
Chapter Eleven: Hollywood Through a Broadway Lens
Chapter Twelve: Librettos Instead of Lyrics
Chapter Thirteen: Up In Central Park
Chapter Fourteen: Annie Get Your Gun
Chapter Fifteen: More Movies
Chapter Sixteen: Colonial America and Brooklyn
Chapter Seventeen: Something Old, Something New
Chapter Eighteen: Sweet Charity
Chapter Nineteen: It's Where You Finish
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