- 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
Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity
- Chapter:
- (p.202) 18 Sweet Charity
- Source:
- Pick Yourself Up
- Author(s):
Charlotte Greenspan
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter begins by detailing the personal losses experienced by Dorothy in 1958, namely the death of Michael Todd in a plane crash on March 22; the death of her brother and collaborator, Herb Fields on March 24, due to a heart attack at age sixty; and the death of her husband just a few months later. It then describes her return to Broadway via the musical Sweet Charity in 1966.
Keywords: Michael Todd, women songwriters, Herb Fields, Sweet Charity
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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
