- 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
“It’s Where You Finish …”
“It’s Where You Finish …”
- Chapter:
- (p.217) 19 “It’s Where You Finish …”
- Source:
- Pick Yourself Up
- Author(s):
Charlotte Greenspan
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter focuses on the later life and career of Dorothy Fields. Dorothy's last three musicals were separated by long intermissions. There were seven years between Redhead and Sweet Charity and another seven years between Sweet Charity and Seesaw, her final musical, written in collaboration with Cy Coleman. Dorothy died unexpectedly on March 28, 1974. The New York Times listed heart attack as the cause of death.
Keywords: Dorothy Fields, women songwriters, Seesaw, heart attack
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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
