Herbert Fields

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Herbert Fields (born July 26, 1897 , † March 24, 1958 in New York City ) was an American playwright and screenwriter .

Life

Herbert Fields comes from a Jewish New York theater family. He is the brother of Dorothy Fields and Joseph A. Fields , who also became known as authors. His father Lew Fields was a famous vaudeville comedian and Broadway producer.

Herbert Fields wrote in the second half of the 1920s, the books for the early Rodgers and Hart - musicals among others for A Connecticut Yankee . He also worked with Vincent Youmans ( Hit the Deck ) and Jimmy McHugh ( Hello, Daddy ). Most of these shows were produced by Field's father.
In the early 1930s he began working with Cole Porter for the musicals Fifty Million Frenchmen and The New Yorkers . In 1933 he wrote the book for the Gershwin musical Pardon My English together with Morrie Ryskind . Because of the Great Depression and the associated difficulties on Broadway , Fields worked as a screenwriter for various Hollywood " B-movies " in the 1930s . It was not until the late 1930s that Fields, in collaboration with Buddy DeSylva , wrote the books for the Broadway musicals Du Barry Was a Lady and Panama Hattie with the music of Cole Porter. With the 1941 Porter musical Let's Face It! began Fields Broadway collaboration with his sister Dorothy; followed Something for the Boys (1943), Mexican Hayride (1944) and Up in Central Park (1945, with music by Sigmund Romberg ). Her greatest success was the book on Annie Get Your Gun (1946) with music by Irving Berlin . Herbert Fields died in 1958 while working on the musical Redhead , for which he received a Tony Award for the best musical a year later .


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SURNAME Fields, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1958
Place of death New York City