Oral history interview with Dorothy Fields, 1958.

Biographical Note

Lyricist

Scope and Contents

Recollections of her father, Lew Fields; family's life in the theater; career as a lyric writer: the Cotton Club in Harlem, "Blackbirds," "Annie Get Your Gun," association with J. Fred Coots, Jimmy McHugh, Jerome Kern; old vs. new musical comedy; impression of Lillian Russell

Subjects

• Fields, Dorothy, 1905-1974--Interviews.
• Fields, Lew.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Lyricists--Interviews.
• Musicals.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Popular music.
• Theater.
• United States--Social life and customs.