Dorothy Fields Born: 15-Jul-1905 Birthplace: Allenhurst, NJ Died: 28-Mar-1974 Location of death: New York City Cause of death: Stroke Remains: Buried, Maimonides Cemetery, Brookly, NY
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Songwriter Nationality: United States Executive summary: On the Sunny Side of the Street Lyricist, collaborator with Jimmy McHugh and later, Jerome Kern. Father: Lew Fields ("Moses Schoenfeld", vaudevillian, b. 1-Jan-1867, d. 20-Jul-1941) Mother: Rose Harris Brother: Joseph Fields (playwright/screenwriter, b. 21-Feb-1895, d. 3-Mar-1966) Brother: Herbert Fields (screenwriter. 26-Jul-1897, d. 24-Mar-1958) Husband: Jack J. Weiner (surgeon, m. 1925, div. 1926) Husband: David Eli Lahm (dress manufacturer, m. 15-Jul-1939, d. 24-Mar-1958, one son, one daughter) Son: David (b. 1940) Daughter: Eliza (b. 1944)
High School: Benjamin School for Girls, New York, NY
Oscar for Best Music Original Song 1937 for Swing Time (shared) Songwriters Hall of Fame 1971
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