Dorothy Fields, daughter of vaudeville star Lew Fields (of Weber & Fields) started writing songs for Tin Pan Alley and Broadway in the 1920s, in spite of the fact, that her first Broadway show was a flop. From the 30s on she also worked for Hollywood with her partner, composer Jimmy McHugh. She won an Oscar for the song "The Way You Look Tonight" from
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Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley
(1999)
(lyrics: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" - uncredited, "The Way You Look Tonight" - uncredited, "Blue Again" - uncredited, "Diga Diga Doo" - uncredited, "I Must Have That Man" - uncredited, "On the Sunny Side of the Street" - uncredited, "I'm in the Mood for Love" - uncredited, "Pick Yourself Up" - uncredited, "Lovely to Look At" - uncredited, "A Fine Romance" - uncredited, "I Feel Merely Marvelous" - uncredited, "My Girl Is Just Enough Woman for Me" - uncredited, "If My Friends Could See Me Now" - uncredited, "Big Spender" - uncredited, "I Feel a Song Coming On" - uncredited / performer: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" - uncredited, "Blue Again" - uncredited, "A Fine Romance" - uncredited)
1969Sweet Charity
(lyrics: "My Personal Property" - uncredited, "Big Spender" - uncredited, "If My Friends Could See Me Now" - uncredited, "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This" - uncredited, "It's a Nice Face" - uncredited, "The Rhythm of Life" - uncredited, "Sweet Charity" - uncredited, "I'm a Brass Band" - uncredited, "I Love to Cry at Weddings" - uncredited, "Where Am I Going?" - uncredited)
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Junior Miss
(1957)
(lyrics: "A Man Is An Animal", "Have Feet-Will Dance", "Let's Make It Christmas All Year 'Round", "I'll Buy It", "Happy Heart", "Junior Miss")
1953The Farmer Takes a Wife
(lyrics: "Opening" 1953 - uncredited, "Today I Love Everybody" 1953 - uncredited, "On the Erie Canal" 1953 - uncredited, "We're Doing It for the Natives of Jamaica" 1953 - uncredited, "Can You Spell Schenectady" 1953 - uncredited, "Somethin' Real Special" 1953 - uncredited, "With the Sun Warm Upon Me" 1953 - uncredited, "We're in Business" 1953 - uncredited, "When I Close the Door" 1953 - uncredited)
1953The Ford 50th Anniversary Show
(TV movie)
(lyrics: "I'm in the Mood for Love", "I Can't Give You Anything but Love")
1952The Stooge
(lyrics: "I Feel a Song Coming On" - uncredited)
1951Excuse My Dust
(lyrics: "I'd Like to Take You Out Dreaming", "Lorelei Brown", "Goin' Steady", "Spring Has Sprung", "Get a Horse", "That's for Children")
1951That's My Boy
(lyrics: "I'm in the Mood for Love")
1951Mr. Imperium
(lyrics: "Let Me Look At You", "Andiamo", "My Man and My Mule")
1950Born Yesterday
(lyrics: "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" - uncredited)
1950Where Danger Lives
(lyrics: "I'm Living in a Great Big Way" - uncredited)
1938Joy of Living
(lyrics: "Just Let Me Look at You" 1938 - uncredited, "What's Good About Good Night?" 1938 - uncredited, "A Heavenly Party" 1938 - uncredited, "You Couldn't Be Cuter" 1938 - uncredited)
1938Swing Cat's Jamboree
(short)
(lyrics: "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" - uncredited)
1938Test Pilot
(writer: "Goodbye Blues" - uncredited)
1938Bringing Up Baby
(lyrics: "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" 1928 - uncredited)
1936The King Steps Out
(lyrics: "Stars in My Eyes", "Madly In Love", "What Shall Remain", "Learn How To Lose", "The End Begins")
1936Ceiling Zero
(lyrics: "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" - uncredited)
1935The Nitwits
(lyrics: "Music in My Heart" 1935)
1935I Dream Too Much
(lyrics: "I Dream Too Much" 1935 - uncredited, "The Jockey on the Carousel" 1935 - uncredited, "I Got Love" 1935 - uncredited, "I'm the Echo You're the Song That I Love" 1935 - uncredited)
1935Hooray for Love
(writer: "Ballet Fantastic" 1935 - uncredited / lyrics: "Hooray for Love" 1935 - uncredited, "I'm in Love All Over Again" 1935 - uncredited, "Palsy Walsy" 1935 - uncredited, "Birds of Spring" 1935 - uncredited, "You're an Angel" 1935 - uncredited, "I'm Livin' in a Great Big Way" 1935 - uncredited)
1935In Person
(lyrics: "Lovely To Look At", "Don't Mention Love to Me", "Got a New Lease on Life", "Out of Sight, Out of Mind")
1935Every Night at Eight
(lyrics: "Take It Easy" - uncredited, "I Feel a Song Coming On" - uncredited, "Song Medley" - uncredited, "Every Night at Eight" - uncredited, "I'm in the Mood for Love" - uncredited)
1935Roberta
(lyrics: "Let's Begin" 1933 - uncredited, "I'll Be Hard to Handle" 1933 - uncredited, "I Won't Dance" 1934 - uncredited, "Lovely to Look At" 1935 - uncredited)
1933Penthouse
(lyrics: "Don't Blame Me" 1933 - uncredited)
1933Meet the Baron
(lyrics: "Hail to the Baron Munchausen" 1933 - uncredited, "Clean as a Whistle" 1933 - uncredited, "Drumming Out" 1933 - uncredited)
1933Dancing Lady
(lyrics: "My Dancing Lady" 1933, "Hey! Young Fella" 1933 - uncredited)
1932Taxi!
(lyrics: "On the Sunny Side of the Street" 1930 - uncredited)
1931Flying High
(lyrics: "I'll Make a Happy Landing the Lucky Day I Land You" 1931 - uncredited, "It'll Be the First Time for Me" 1931 - uncredited, "We'll Dance Until the Dawn" 1931 - uncredited)
1931The Cuban Love Song
(music: "Tramps at Sea" 1931 - uncredited, "The Cuban Love Song" 1931 - uncredited / lyrics: "Tramps at Sea" 1931 - uncredited, "The Cuban Love Song" 1931 - uncredited)
1931Street Scene
(lyrics: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" 1928 - uncredited)
1930Love in the Rough
(lyrics: "Go Home and Tell Your Mother" 1930 - uncredited, "I'm Learning a Lot from You" 1930 - uncredited, "I'm Doing That Thing Falling In Love" 1930 - uncredited, "One More Waltz" 1930 - uncredited)
(1928) Stage: Wrote lyrics for "Blackbirds of 1928" produced on Broadway. Musical revue. Music by Jimmy McHugh. Directed / produced by Lew Leslie. Liberty Theatre: 9 May 1928-Apr 1929 (closing date unknown/518 performances). Cast: Baby Banks, George Cooper, Billie Cortez, Adelaide Hall...
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[on Jerome Kern] He didn't play the piano very well - not a great pianist like Arthur Schwartz, or Harold Arlen, or Cy Coleman, who play beautifully. He'd play something he'd written, and if there was an expression on your face that showed you didn't care for it - he'd react very quickly to what you thought - he'd turn this little statuette around, facing away, and say 'Wagner doesn't like it'.
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Trivia:
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971.
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