Joseph Fields

Joseph Albert Fields ( born February 28, 1895 in New York City; † March 3, 1966 in Beverly Hills, California ) was an American screenwriter and playwright.

Joseph Fields comes from a Jewish family in New York theater. He is the brother of Dorothy Fields and Herbert Fields, which were also known as authors. His father, Lew Fields was a famous vaudeville comedian and Broadway producer.

Joseph Fields worked in the 1930s as a story and a screenwriter in Hollywood. One of his training partners was the author Jerome Chodorov. Primarily with him Fields also worked for Broadway since the early 1940s. It originated mainly comedies, for example, the piece My Sister Eileen in 1940. It formed the basis for the 1953 musical Wonderful Town, for which Leonard Bernstein composed the music. Fields was, inter alia, the Tony Award in the category " Best Musical " award the same year. In 1944, Fields debut as a director in Arthur Miller 's first ( unsuccessful ) play The Man Who Had All the Luck. For the musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1949) he wrote together with Anita Loos the book. For the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song, which was filmed in 1961 under the title almond eyes and lotus flowers, he collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein.