Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical

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Preface
A Note About the Lyrics
Chapter One: The World of Her Father
Chapter Two: The World of Her Family
Chapter Three: The Teen Years
Chapter Four: Marriage and the Start of a Career
Chapter Five: What's Black and White and Heard All Over?
Chapter Six: Give My Refrains to Broadway
Chapter Seven: Hello to Hollywood
Chapter Eight: Change Partners and Write
Chapter Nine: The Best of Hollywood
Chapter Ten: End of an Era
Chapter Eleven: Hollywood Through a Broadway Lens
Chapter Twelve: Librettos Instead of Lyrics
Chapter Thirteen: Up In Central Park
Chapter Fourteen: Annie Get Your Gun
Chapter Fifteen: More Movies
Chapter Sixteen: Colonial America and Brooklyn
Chapter Seventeen: Something Old, Something New
Chapter Eighteen: Sweet Charity
Chapter Nineteen: It's Where You Finish
Appendix One: List of Songs
Appendix Two: List of Theatre Works and Movies
Notes

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Famed lyricist Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, " and "The Way You Look Tonight." In Pick Yourself Up, Charlotte Greenspan offers the most complete treatment of Fields's life and work to date, tracing her rise to prominence in a male-dominated world. Born in 1904 into a show business family - her father, Lou Fields, was a famed stage comedian turned Broadway producer - Fields first teamed with songwriter Jimmy McHugh in the late 1920s and went on to a series of Hollywood collaborations with Jerome Kern, including the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classic Swing Time. With her brother Herbert, she co-authored the books for several of Cole Porter's shows and for Irving Berlin's classic Annie Get Your Gun. Fields's lyrics - colloquial, urbane, sometimes slangy, sometimes sensuous - won her high praise from later generations of songwriters including Stephen Sondheim, and her stellar career opened a path for other women in her profession, among them Betty Comden and Dory Previn.

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