In July 1902, after the troupe disbanded, James and Bella traveled to Berlin where Fields promptly left her husband and began working in theaters and cabarets around the German Reich.

[citation needed] In 1904, Fields appeared in various German establishments, primarily in Berlin and Hamburg, performing arias and lieder.

During the tour, Fields introduced to European audiences, besides her American dances, her ability to sing traditional Lieder songs in fluent German, English, Russian, French and Dutch.

The height of this tour was in late 1910, during her appearance at Vienna's popular Gartenbau Theater where she performed "Nach Zigeuner Art",[8] written especially for her by the famous Austrian composer and musical director, Theodor Wottitz.

[1] In February 1914, Fields returned home to Hamburg, where she remained for the next 16 months as performing in local establishments such as the Eden Theater and the Rathaus Cafe.

Also the numerous street revolts and inflation made it difficult for Fields to continue working in Germany and that winter she left for a two/three-year Eastern European tour, spanning across Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia until 1924.

[1] The famous revue performed the latest Jazz numbers and introduced the Charleston across Germany, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, France, Spain and the Soviet Union before dissolving June 1926.

Back in Berlin, Fields was hired by dancer Louis Douglas to be a part of his 'Black Follies' revue which toured the European continent until it fell apart in Poland sometime in April 1928.

After nearly 25 months of touring, in August 1931, Fields quit the revue to film Rex Ingram's Baroud on location in Nice and Marrakech.