Joseph Fields
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Joseph Albert Fields (February 21, 1895 – March 4, 1966) was an American playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer.
Life and career
Fields was born in New York City, the son of vaudevillean Lew Fields. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and attended New York University before enrolling in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, which brought him to Paris where he remained in the perfume industry until 1922. He moved to Los Angeles in 1930, and his early writing career was spent churning out screenplays for a majority of B-movies, beginning with The Big Shot in 1931.
Fields made his Broadway debut in 1938 with the play Schoolhouse on the Lot, co-written by Jerome Chodorov, who became a regular collaborator. The prolific pair went on to write My Sister Eileen (1941), The French Touch (1954), The Girl in Pink Tights (1954), and The Ponder Heart (1956). They also wrote the screenplay for My Sister Eileen's 1942 film adaptation as well as the 1945 film version of Junior Miss.
Fields, Anita, wrote the book for the Jule Styne musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and he collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein II on the book for Flower Drum Song. He co-produced and wrote the screen version of the latter, garnering a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Written American Musical.
Fields was named in the same category as Flower Drum Song and received the Tony Award for Best Musical for Wonderful Town.
Fields directed Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), his own films I Gotta Get Out (1947) and The Tunnel of Love (1955).
Fields was Dorothy Fields' brother, writer/lyricist Dorothy and writer Herbert Herbert Herbert. "Joseph Fields...died here last night," Mr. Fields said in the New York Times, but he was wintering in California when he died.