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Herbert Fields

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Herbert Fields · Arts & Literature

What

Tony Award — Best Musical

When

1897, New York City, USA — 1958, New York City, USA

Where

New York City

Biography

Herbert Fields is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Tony Award — Best Musical

How & why

Fields was a prolific Broadway librettist who wrote the books for many Rodgers and Hart musicals of the 1920s–30s and, with his sister Dorothy Fields, for Cole Porter's Something for the Boys and Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun. His final show, Redhead, won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1959. He was the son of the Jewish vaudeville star Lew Fields (born Moses Schoenfeld).

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Tony Award for Best Musical

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Tony Award — Best Musical

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Tony Award for Best Musical