Joseph Fields

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Joseph Albert Fields (born February 28, 1895 in New York City , † March 3, 1966 in Beverly Hills , California ) was an American screenwriter and playwright .

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

Joseph Fields worked as a story and screenwriter in Hollywood in the 1930s. One of his professional partners was the author Jerome Chodorov. Mainly with him Fields worked for Broadway since the early 1940s . Above all comedies emerged, for example the piece My Sister Eileen from 1940. It formed the basis for the 1953 musical Wonderful Town , for which Leonard Bernstein composed the music. Fields received the Tony Award in the “Best Musical” category in the same year .
In 1944, Fields first directed Arthur Miller's first (failed) play The Man Who Had All the Luck . He wrote the book together with Anita Loos for the musical Blondes Prefered ( Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , 1949) . He worked with Oscar Hammerstein on the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song , which was filmed in 1961 under the title Almond Eyes and Lotus Blossoms .

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SURNAME Fields, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fields, Joseph Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1966
Place of death Beverly Hills , California