Joseph Fields
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 .
Web links
- Joseph A. Fields in the Internet Broadway Database (IBDb)
- Joseph Fields in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Joseph Fields Biography The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization (English)
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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 |