Pick Yourself Up

Charlotte Greenspan is a musicologist and pianist who has written extensively on music and film. She lives in Ithaca, New York.

• Preface ; A Note About the Lyrics ; Chapter One: The World of Her Father ; Chapter Two: The World of Her Family ; Chapter Three: The Teen Years ; Chapter Four: Marriage and the Start of a Career ; Chapter Five: What's Black and White and Heard All Over? ; Chapter Six: Give My Refrains to Broadway ; Chapter Seven: Hello to Hollywood ; Chapter Eight: Change Partners and Write ; Chapter Nine: The Best of Hollywood ; Chapter Ten: End of an Era ; Chapter Eleven: Hollywood Through a Broadway Lens ; Chapter Twelve: Librettos Instead of Lyrics ; Chapter Thirteen: Up In Central Park ; Chapter Fourteen: Annie Get Your Gun ; Chapter Fifteen: More Movies ; Chapter Sixteen: Colonial America and Brooklyn ; Chapter Seventeen: Something Old, Something New ; Chapter Eighteen: Sweet Charity ; Chapter Nineteen: "It's Where You Finish" ; Appendix One: List of Songs ; Appendix Two: List of Theatre Works and Movies ; Notes

This marvelously researched and highly readable book is the definitive account of Dorothy Fields's path-breaking career-and of its interactions with her famously accomplished family (Weber and Fields), colleagues (Rodgers and Hammerstein), and collaborators (Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Bob Fosse, Cy Coleman). Greenspan's thoughtful analyses, her lively exploration of historical mysteries, and her grasp of both Broadway and Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1970s make this chunk of Americana irresistible, both for song lovers and for scholars.