Born in Allenhurst, NJ; educated at the Benjamin School for Girls. The daughter of comedian Lew Fields of Weber and Fields fame, and younger sister of playwright-screenwriters Herbert and Joseph Fields, she began a highly successful career as a Broadway lyricist in 1928 and in the following four decades wrote hundreds of songs for stage and screen musicals, often in collaboration with composer Jimmy McHugh. She won an Academy Award for the song "The Way You Look Tonight" in the Astaire-Rogers film SWING TIME (1936). which she had written with Jerome Kern. She also wrote the books, usually in collaboration with brother Herbert, for several Broadway musical hits that were later brought to the screen, including Let's Face It, Something for the Boys, Mexican Hayride, Annie Get Your Gun, and Up in Central Park. She appeared as herself in the film STAGE DOOR CANTEEN (1943). Her other popular-song compositions include "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby", "Diga Diga Doo", "Doin' the New Low Down", "Porgy", "I Must Have that Man", "Blues Again", "Exactly Like You", "On the Sunny Side of the Street", "Cuban Love Song", "Hey Young Fella", "Don't Blame Me", "Dinner at Eight", "Thank You for a Lovely Evening", "I Dream Too Much", "Jockey on the Carousel", "I Won't Dance", "Lovely to Look At", "I Feel a Song Coming On", "I'm in the Mood for Love", "Stars in My Eyes", "Pick Yourself Up", "Bojangles of Harlem", "Never Gonna Dance", "A Fine Romance", "Just Let Me Look at You", "You Couldn't Be Cuter", "This Is It", "It's All Yours", "I'll Pay the Check", "Terribly Attractive", "A Lady Needs a Change", "Remind Me", "April Snow", "Close as Pages in a Book", "The Big Back Yard", "When You Walk in the Room", "Andiamo", "Nothin' for Nothin'", "There Must Be Something Better than Love", "Look Who's Dancin'", "I'm Like a New Broom", "Love Is the Reason", "Make the Man Love Me", "I'll Buy You a Star", "More Love than Your Love", "Merely Marvelous", "Look Who's in Love", "Big Spender", "There's Gotta Be Something Better than This" and "Where Am I Going?".  Nominated for Music Best Song 1935: ROBERTA "Lovely to Look At" -- Lyric (w. Jimmy McHugh)  Music Best Song 1936: SWING TIME "The Way You Look Tonight" -- Lyric 2 nominations, 1 Award