Lew Fields

Lew Fields (born Moses Schoenfeld, January 1867 – July 20, 1941) was an American actor, comedian, vaudeville star, theatre manager, and producer.

In the music hall's casts were some of the greatest performers and comics on the American stage at that time, including Lillian Russell, Ross and Fenton, Fay Templeton, and DeWolf Hopper.

During the tour the orchestra was conducted by 19-year-old Richard Rodgers,[4] who, in 1920, contributed songs with lyrics by Lorenz Hart to the Lew Field's production of Poor Little Ritz Girl.

[6] Weber and Fields also reunited for the 27 December 1932 inaugural show at Radio City Music Hall, which proved to be the last stage appearance of the two performers as a team.

In the RKO Radio Pictures film, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939), Fields appeared as himself, re-enacting a slapstick comedy scene from The Hen-Pecks.

[7][8] The backstage hostility in Neil Simon's play and film The Sunshine Boys is reportedly based on the team of Smith and Dale, not Weber and Fields.

Joe Weber in 1901
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Constance Carpenter and William Gaxton , principals of the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hart 's A Connecticut Yankee , on stage at the Vanderbilt Theatre during a mid-run rehearsal of the hit musical (1928). Producer Lew Fields is seen at right, in shirtsleeves.
Fields (far right) in his feature length debut Old Dutch , based on his 1909 play of the same name