Dorothy Fields, daughter of vaudeville star Lew Fields (of Weber & Fields)
started writing songs for Tin Pan Alley and Broadway in the 1920s, in
spite of the fact, that her first Broadway show was a flop. From the
30s on she also worked for Hollywood with her partner, composer
Jimmy McHugh. She won an Oscar for the song "The Way You Look Tonight" from
Ein Walzer aus Amerika (1936), which she had written with Jerome Kern. She has at least one
child, David Lahm.
