{"product_id":"9780195111101","title":"Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical","description":"\u003cp\u003eFamed 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 \u003ci\u003ePick Yourself Up\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eSwing Time\u003c\/i\u003e. With her brother Herbert, she co-authored the books for several of Cole Porter's shows and for Irving Berlin's classic \u003ci\u003eAnnie Get Your Gun\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010946875632,"sku":"9780195111101","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780195111101_p0.jpg?v=1763663340","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780195111101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}