- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- A Note about the Lyrics
-
1 The World of Her Father -
2 The World of Her Family -
3 The Teen Years -
4 Marriage and the Start of a Career -
5 What’s Black and White and Heard All Over? -
6 Give My Refrains to Broadway -
7 Hello to Hollywood -
8 Change Partners and Write -
9 The Best of Hollywood -
10 End of an Era -
11 Hollywood through a Broadway Lens -
12 Librettos Instead of Lyrics -
13 Up in Central Park -
14 Annie Get Your Gun -
15 More Movies -
16 Colonial America and Brooklyn -
17 Something Old, Something New -
18 Sweet Charity -
19 “It’s Where You Finish …” -
Appendix 1 List of Songs -
Appendix 2 List of Theater Works and Movies - Index of Songs, Shows, and Movies
- General Index
Hollywood through a Broadway Lens
Hollywood through a Broadway Lens
- Chapter:
- (p.118) 11 Hollywood through a Broadway Lens
- Source:
- Pick Yourself Up
- Author(s):
Charlotte Greenspan
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter focuses on Dorothy's return to Broadway. The Broadway to which Dorothy Fields returned in 1939 had not yet bottomed out financially. Every year in that decade saw fewer productions on Broadway than did the year before. Producers of shows in 1939 had hoped that with the increased number of visitors to New York to see the World's Fair, ticket sales on Broadway would go up, but in fact they went down. Nevertheless, many composers and lyricists who had tasted what Hollywood had to offer in the first half of the 1930s found themselves carried on a return current to New York.
Keywords: World's Fair, women songwriters, Broadway, Hollywood
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- A Note about the Lyrics
-
1 The World of Her Father -
2 The World of Her Family -
3 The Teen Years -
4 Marriage and the Start of a Career -
5 What’s Black and White and Heard All Over? -
6 Give My Refrains to Broadway -
7 Hello to Hollywood -
8 Change Partners and Write -
9 The Best of Hollywood -
10 End of an Era -
11 Hollywood through a Broadway Lens -
12 Librettos Instead of Lyrics -
13 Up in Central Park -
14 Annie Get Your Gun -
15 More Movies -
16 Colonial America and Brooklyn -
17 Something Old, Something New -
18 Sweet Charity -
19 “It’s Where You Finish …” -
Appendix 1 List of Songs -
Appendix 2 List of Theater Works and Movies - Index of Songs, Shows, and Movies
- General Index
