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HERBERT FIELDS
(1897 - 1958)Nationality: USA
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America's Sweetheart Annie Get Your Gun Arms And the Girl By the Beautiful Sea Chee-Chee Connecticut Yankee, A Dearest Enemy Du Barry Was A Lady Fifty Million Frenchmen Garrick Gaieties, The Girl Friend, The Hello, Daddy Hit the Deck Let's Face It! Mexican Hayride New Yorkers, The Panama Hattie Pardon My English Peggy-Ann Present Arms Redhead Something For the Boys Star Dust Up In Central ParkAmerica's Sweetheart
Geraldine and Michael leave Minnesota for Hollywood. Geraldine becomes a big silent star but Michael doesn't make it. then the talkies come in Marion has a lisp - but Michael has a rich talking voice and he now becomes the big star
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Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Lorenz Hart; book by Herbert Field
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Broadhurst Theatre, New York 10 Feb 1931
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Top of PageAnnie Get Your Gun
annie Oakley supports her younger siblings by selling game she shoots. She is spotted by Buffalo Bill and given a place in his Wild West Show. annie falls for the star attraction sharpshooter Frank Butler. Soon annie is the star of the show. Frank's male ego is hurt and he leaves for a rival outfit
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Written by Dorothy Fields And Herbert Field. Music And lyrics by Irving Berlin
1st Produced:
Imperial Theater, New York 16 May 1946
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Original cast recording MCa (MCaD-10047) 1946
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Top of PageArms And the Girl
a Hessian soldier falls in love with an independently spirited American girl
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Written by Dorothy Fields, Herbert Fields And Rouben Mamoulian; Music by Morton Gold; lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Based on the book by Alan Child And Isabelle Louden.
1st Produced:
46th Street Theater, New York, NY 02 Feb 1950
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Original cast recording: Decca (5200) 1950
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Top of PageBy the Beautiful Sea
1907. Lottie Gibson has just finished a Vaudeville tour and has returned to the family run boarding house in Coney Island. On the road she met Shakespearian actor Dennis emery and she gets ready the best room in the house for him. Dennis is going to appear at the Brighton Beach Playhouse. Lottie discovers that he is broke and may not be able to open his new show. She decides that she will raise the money and will do anything - even jumping out of a hot air balloon
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Music by Arthur Schwartz; lyrics by Dorothy Fields; book by Dorothy Fields; book by Herbert Fields
1st Produced:
Majestic Theatre, New York 08 Apr 1954
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Original cast recording: angel (64889) 1954
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Top of PageChee-Chee
the title character and her husband flee a world of privilege in Peking and, as they travel, are beset by Tartars, brigands, and monks. the ensuing comic rescues are part of this charming Asian fable
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1st Produced:
Lew Fields Manfield Theatre, New York 25 Sep 1928
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Top of PageConnecticut Yankee, A
On the eve of his marriage to Fay Morgan, David goes to see his former fiancee Alice. Fay sees them together and is angry and knocks David out with a champagne bottle. David finds himself in the Court of King Arthur. He is dubbed Sir Boss and given the task of industrialising the country. He introduces the radio and televison. He falls for Alisande. Morgana Le Fay King Arthur's evil sister is jealous and has Alisande kidnapped. David rescues her but finds himself back in the present. He realises that it is Alice he loves not Fay
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Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Lorenz Hart; book by Herbert Field. Based on the book by Mark Twain
1st Produced:
Vanderbilt Theatre, New York 03 Nov 1927
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Broadway cast: Decca (440 013 560-2 1943
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Top of PageDearest Enemy
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Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Lorenz Hart; book by Herbert Field
1st Produced:
Knickerbocker Theatre, New York 1925
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Studio cast recording: Bayview (RN8W008) 1981
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Top of PageDu Barry Was A Lady
Louis Blore a washroom attendant wins the lottery and quits his job. Louis is in love with nightclub singer May. However, May is in love with Alex but Alex is married to ann. Louis' replacement suggests that he drug Alex and get him out of the way. Unfortunately Louis drinks the drugged drink and collapses. He believes himself to be back in the court of Louis XV and he is King Louis. May is Madame du Barry and Alex a peasant. When he comes to he realises that May really does love Alex and he uses his winnings to pay for a divorce for alex. Penniless he luckily gets his old job back
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Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields; B G DeSylva
1st Produced:
46th Street Theatre, New York 06 Dec 1939
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Top of PageFifty Million Frenchmen
Peter Forbes a young American millionaire is in Paris with two friends Billy and Michael. He bets them that he can live without his money for a month and at the end of the month propose to LouLou Carroll. LouLou is in Paris with her parents and friend Joyce. Peter takes a job as a tour guide - he is not a success but he catches the eye of the wealthy widow Violet Hildegard. everyone goes to the races. Louis Pernasse owner of the Chateau Madrid night club tells Peter that the race is fixed. Peter borrows money from LouLou to bet on the race. When his horse looses he tears up his ticket. LouLou thinks he has done this so as not to share his winnings and storms off. then there is an announcement that the winner has been disqualified and Peter's horse has been placed first. LouLou's parents have arranged for her to marry a poor man - but one with a title. they hold the engagement party at the Chateau Madrid where Peter is now working as a dance host. Billy and Michael arrive with Joyce and Violet. LouLou says she will not marry the Grand Duke and she overhears a conversation that clears up her mistake about the ticket. She and Peter become engaged and Peter wins his bet as it is the last day of his month
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Music by Cole Porter; lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields
1st Produced:
Lyric Theatre, New York 27 Nov 1929
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Studio cast: New World (80417) 1991
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Top of PageGarrick Gaieties, The
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Music by Richard Rogers; lyrics by Lorenz Hart; book by Herbert Fields
1st Produced:
Garrick Theatre, New York 17 May 1925
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Top of PageGirl Friend, The
A young man takes up cycling because the father of the girl he loves is a professional cyclist. He enters a six day road race. Some dubious gamblers try to get him to loose
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Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Lorenz Hart; book by Herbert Field
1st Produced:
Vanderbilt Theatre, New York 1926
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Top of PageHello, Daddy
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Setting: the Cedarhurst School for Girls; Club Car of a local train; reception room at Block's; the Sun Parlor at Block's.
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Book by Herbert Fields; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields; Music by Jimmy McHugh; Based on A farce Adapted from the German by Frank Mandel
1st Produced:
Lew Fields' Mansfield Theatre, NY 1928
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Top of PageHit the Deck
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Music by Vincent Youmans; lyrics by Clifford Grey And Leo Robin; book by Herbert Fields. Based on the play by Hubert Osborne
1st Produced:
Belasco Theatre, New York 1927
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Top of PageLet's Face It!
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Maggie, Cornelia and Nancy are suspicious of the numerous "hunting trips" their husbands go on. So when the husbands leave they invite over three soldier boys for a party. the soldier's girlfriends find out and crash the party. then the husbands turn up
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Music by Cole Porter; lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields; book by Dorothy Fields
1st Produced:
Imperial Theatre, New York 29 Oct 1941
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Top of PageMexican Hayride
Montana a lady bullfighter has just won and is about to throw one of the bull's ears to her boyfriend David the American charge d'affaires when she sees her no good brother-in-law Joe in the crowd. In anger she throws it at him. Joe is feted by the crowd. Joe is involved with a lottery scam and goes on the run - putting on many disguises to elude the police - even dressing as a woman. Joe is caught and sent back to the US and Montana and David live happily ever after
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Music by Cole Porter; lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields; book by Dorothy Fields
1st Produced:
Winter Garden Theatre, New York 28 Jan 1944
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Original Broadway cast: Decca 1944
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Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 15 Page 814
Top of PageNew Yorkers, The
a musical tour of the high and low life of Manhattan, stopping off at a Park avenue apartment, a speakeasy, a bootleg distillery, and Reuben's Restaurant. a high society lady falls in love with a bootlegger, the club's headliner falls for the society lady's ex-fiance, the club's torch singer looks for love in all the wrong places, and the club's bouncer couldn't be happier!
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Music by Cole Porter; lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields. Based on A story by Peter Arno And e Ray Goetz
1st Produced:
B S Moss's Broadway Theatre, New York 1930
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Top of PagePanama Hattie
Hattie Maloney, a nightclub singer in Panama City, tries to fit into the elite world of the American colony to which her fiance, a single parent, Nick Bullett, belongs. Her prospective marriage to Nick hinges on the approval of his precocious 8-year-old daughter, Gerry, as well as that of his boss. Gerry has been chaperoned on her trip from the States by Vivian Budd a "gentleman's gentleman" who gets bent to the breaking point by the wiles of Hattie's best friend Florrie. Nick's boss, an army officer/engineer, Whitney Randolph, and the girls in the Canal "social set" prove even harder to win over than does Gerry. So what's needed are some major heroics and that is supplied when a plot to blow up the canal is foiled. Helping thwart the "enemy" are three less-than-robust soldiers - Woozy, Skat, and Windy (William Nash). Songs include: "I've Still Got My Health," "We Detest a Fiesta," "Make It another Old-Fashioned, Please," and "Let's Be Buddies."
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Music by Cole Porter; lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields; book by B G DeSylvia
1st Produced:
46th Street Theatre, New York 30 Oct 1940
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Studio cast( selected songs from) MCa (10521) 1940
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Top of PagePardon My English
In order to promote the sale of wine and beer the German government ban all non-alcoholic drinks. A Speakeasy opens up selling ginger beer and other non-alcoholic beverages
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Music by George Gershwin; lyrics by Ira Gershwin; book by Herbert Fields
1st Produced:
Majestic Theatre, New York 20 Jan 1932
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Studio cast: elektra (79338) 1993
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Top of PagePeggy-Ann
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Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Lorenz Hart; book by Herbert Field. Based on the musical "Tillie's Nightmare" by edgar Smith And A Baldwin Sloane
1st Produced:
Vanderbilt Theatre, New York 1926
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Top of PagePresent Arms
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Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Lorenz Hart; book by Herbert Field
1st Produced:
Lew Field's Mansfield Theatre, New York 1928
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Top of PageRedhead
1900 a young actress has been murdered. the Simpson Sisters Waxworks installs a tableaux of the event which upsets actor Tom Baxter who had a soft spot for the dead actress. So that she can see him again, essie, the sisters' neice, claims she ahs been attacked by the murderer.
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Written by Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields, Sidney Sheldon And David Shaw; music by Albert Hague; lyrics by Dorothy Fields
1st Produced:
46th Street Theater, New York, NY 05 Feb 1959
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Original cast recording: Fynsworth alley: (61995) 1959
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Top of PageSomething For the Boys
the three Hart cousins, who have never met - machinist Blossom, con man Harry, and revue singer Chiquita - find out from Lawyer Calhoun that they have inherited property in Texas. However, the place is a wreck. they decide to convert it into a hotel for the wives and girl friends of the soldiers at the army base next door. Sgt. Rocky Fulton and his fellow band members offer to help pay for the fix up by putting on a show - what else? the base commander, Lt. Col. Grubbs, and his wife reluctantly agree to all this. a squatter, Tobias Twitch, has to be evicted. Rocky's society girl friend Melanie has to be removed from the romantic race for Rocky that Blossom intends to win. and among the songs are: "Hey, Good Lookin'," "He's a Right Guy," "the Leader of a Big Time Band," "Could It Be You?," "I'm in Love with a Soldier Boy."
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Music by Cole Porter; lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields; book by Dorothy Fields
1st Produced:
Alvin Theatre, New York 07 Jan 1943
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Original cast: aeI (004) 1943
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Top of PageStar Dust
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Music And lyrics by Cole Porter; book by Herbert Fields
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Unproduced 1931
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Top of PageUp In Central Park
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Music by Sigmund Romberg; lyrics by Dorothy Fields; book by Dorothy Fields; book by Herbert Fields
1st Produced:
New Century Theatre, New York 1945
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