That's Entertainment: A Biography of Broadway Composer Arthur Schwartz

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
•   1. Early Life
•   2. Early Songwriting
•   3. Howard Dietz
•   4. The Little Show and “I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan”
•   5. The London Shows
•   6. Three’s a Crowd and “Something to Remember You By”
•   7. The Band Wagon and “Dancing in the Dark”
•   8. Flying Colors and “Alone Together”
•   9. The Gibson Family and Radio
• 10. Revenge with Music and “You and the Night and the Music”
• 11. At Home Abroad
• 12. Late Thirties: C.B. Cochran and Follow the Sun
• 13. Between the Devil: “By Myself” and “I See Your Face Before Me”
• 14. Virginia and the Rockefellers
• 15. Dorothy Fields and Stars in Your Eyes
• 16. Movie Songwriting: Frank Loesser and Johnny Mercer
• 17. Movie Producing and Hollywood
• 18. Songwriting
• 19. Park Avenue: Ira Gershwin and George S. Kaufman
• 20. Inside U.S.A. and Leo Robin
• 21. More Producing: Television and Inside U.S.A. with Chevrolet
• 22. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Shirley Booth and “Make the Man Love Me”
• 23. Schwartz v. Broadcast Music, Inc.
• 24. The Band Wagon: The Movie and “That’s Entertainment”
• 25. By the Beautiful Sea and More Dorothy Fields
• 26. The Mid-Fifties: Odds and Ends and Mrs. ’Arris Goes to Paris
• 27. The Gay Life: Barbara Cook and “Magic Moment”
• 28. Jennie and Mary Martin
• 29. Later Life
• Appendix A. Arthur Schwartz Chronology
• Appendix B. Chronology of Produced Shows
• Appendix C. Songs Composed by Schwartz with Various Lyricists
• Appendix D. Tribute Albums
• Appendix E. Schwartz Songs on Your Hit Parade
• Chapter Notes
• Bibliography
• Index