Joseph Albert Fields (February 21, 1895 – March 4, 1966)[1] was an American playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer.
He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and attended New York University before enrolling in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, after which he remained in Paris until 1922 working in the perfume business.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1930, and his early writing career was spent churning out screenplays for mostly B-movies, beginning with The Big Shot in 1931.
He also co-produced and wrote the screen adaptation of the latter, garnering a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Written American Musical.
As a director, Fields helmed Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), his own plays I Gotta Get Out (1947) and The Tunnel of Love (1957), and The Desk Set (1955).