Joseph Fields
Joseph Fields
Joseph Fields (1895-1966) was the son of actor, producer and theatre owner Lew Fields (who launched Rodgers & Hart's professional career in 1919) and the brother of Herbert and Dorothy Fields (co-librettists of Annie Get Your Gun, among many other credits). Joseph Fields served in the A.E.F. during World War I. Returning to the U.S., he wrote material for famed impresario Florenz Ziegfeld. In the early 1930s he settled in Hollywood, where he wrote or collaborated on the stories and screenplays of many films. One of his regular collaborators was Jerome Chodorov, with whom he wrote a number of Broadway comedies and musicals, including My Sister Eileen, Junior Miss, Wonderful Town, Anniversary Waltz and The Ponder Heart. He also collaborated with Anita Loos on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with Peter DeVries on Tunnel of Love and with Oscar Hammerstein II on the libretto for Flower Drum Song. (In 1957, Fields obtained the film and dramatic rights to C. Y. Lee's novel The Flower Drum Song, and brought the project to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The resulting musical, with a score by Rodgers & Hammerstein and a libretto by Hammerstein & Fields, opened in 1958.)
In 1954 he produced Arthur Miller's first play, The Man Who Had the Luck. The play itself had no luck (though it was eventually revived on Broadway in 2002), but it did launch Arthur Miller's career.
Films which he wrote and/or produced between 1931 and 1961 included The Big Shot, Lightning Strikes Twice, Annie Oakley, The Walking Dead, Grand Jury, When Love is Young, Reported Missing, Fools for Scandal, Rich Man Poor Girl, The Spellbinder, Mexican Spitfire, Two Girls on Broadway, Louisiana Purchase, My Sister Eileen, The Dough Girls, Junior Miss, the Marx Brothers in Casablanca, Lost Honeymoon, Man From Texas, Farmer Takes a Wife, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Tunnel of Love, Happy Anniversary and Flower Drum Song.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (Hwang Version)
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Full-Length Musical, ComedyRodgers & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (Hwang Version)
Richard Rodgers , Oscar Hammerstein II , David Henry Hwang , Joseph Fields , C.Y. Lee
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 5m
A dazzling update to Rodgers & Hammerstein's jewel, Flower Drum Song. Mei-Li is a naive young refugee from Mao's communist China, who befriends Wang, a man struggling to keep the Chinese opera tradition alive.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyRodgers & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song
Richard Rodgers , Oscar Hammerstein II , Joseph Fields , C.Y. Lee
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 6w, 4m, 1boy(s)
Mei Li has come from China to San Francisco to marry Sammy Fong, a nightclub owner who is already in love with a dancer at his establishment. By turns raucous and heartfelt, this delightful Rodgers & Hammerstein musical embraces the new while honoring the old.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyGentlemen Prefer Blondes
Jule Styne , Leo Robin ,Anita Loos , Joseph Fields
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 4m
Based on Anita Loos’s 1925 bestseller of the same title, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes follows Lorelei Lee, a blonde from Little Rock, Arkansas, who sails to Europe with her friend Dorothy to perform in a nightclub in Paris.
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Lorelei
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyLorelei
Jule Styne , Betty Comden , Adolph Green , Kenny Solms , Gail Parent ,Anita Loos , Joseph Fields , Leo Robin
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 6w, 8m plus ensemble
Subtitled Gentlemen Still Prefer Blondes, this ebullient musical comedy is a sequel to the hit show about Lorelei Lee, who is now a very wealthy widow looking back on her madcap youth.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (Hwang Version)
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Full-Length Musical, ComedyRodgers & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (Hwang Version)
Richard Rodgers , Oscar Hammerstein II , David Henry Hwang , Joseph Fields , C.Y. Lee
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 5m
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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyRodgers & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song
Richard Rodgers , Oscar Hammerstein II , Joseph Fields , C.Y. Lee
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 6w, 4m, 1boy(s)
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyGentlemen Prefer Blondes
Jule Styne , Leo Robin ,Anita Loos , Joseph Fields
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 4m
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Lorelei
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyLorelei
Jule Styne , Betty Comden , Adolph Green , Kenny Solms , Gail Parent ,Anita Loos , Joseph Fields , Leo Robin
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 6w, 8m plus ensemble
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