Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1905 - March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist who wrote well over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. She experienced nifty talent to match conversational every–day speech to complex scores,& was, along sustaining Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, and Kay Swift one of the 1st successful Hollywood & Tin Pan Alley female composers or even librettists.

Dorothy Fields was innate inside Allenhurst, New Jersey and grew up around New York City. Her father, Lew Fields, was the easily-known Vaudeville comedian and in the future became the Broadway producer. Her career as a sales person songster took off within 1928, when Jimmy McHugh, who got seen a bit of of her early function, invited her to provide a bit of lyrics for him. Fields & McHugh team until 1935. Songs from either this period of time include "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" & "On The Sunny Side of the Street".

In the mid-1930s, she started to write lyrics for films and collaborated by owning more composers, including Jerome Kern. By owning Kern, she worked on the picture show version of Roberta, and besides in their greatest profits, Swing Time. A song "The Way You Look Tonight" earned a Fields/Kern team an Academy Award for the best song around 1936.

She returned to Up to date York & worked over again in Broadway shows, however okay, as a librettist, number one by having Arthur Schwartz on Stars In Your Eyes. In the 1940s, she teamed up using her brother, Herbert Fields, using whom she wrote a books for tercet Cole Porter shows: ''Let's Face It, Something For The Boys, and Mexican Hayride. Together, it wrote a book for Annie Get Your Gun'', a musical theater elysian per life of Annie Oakley. It got meant for Jerome Kern to write a music, however once he died, Irving Berlin was brought in. A indicate, which involved a songs "There's No Business Like Show Business" & "They Say It's Wonderful", was the fully profits & run 1,147 performances.

In a Fifties, her large profits was the indicate Redhead (1959), which won two Tony Awards, one for "Best Musical" & a second for Albert Hague's score. Whilst she began collaborating by owning Cy Coleman in the 1960s, her career took a newly turn. She well adapted to the up to date style of music; their number 1 operate together was Sweet Charity. Her endure hit was from either their 2nd collaboration within 1973, Seesaw. Its title was "It's Not Where You Start, It's Where You Finish".

Dorothy Fields died of the heart attack in March 28, 1974 in New York City at a age of 68.