Joseph Fields with Jerome Chodorov, who became a frequent collaborator. The prolific pair went on to write "My Sister Eileen" (1940), "Junior Miss" (1941), "The French Touch" (1945), "Wonderful Town" (1953), "The Girl in Pink Tights" (1954), "Anniversary Waltz" (1954), and "The Ponder Heart" (1956). They also wrote the screenplay for the 1942 film adaptation of "My Sister Eileen". With Anita Loos, Fields wrote the book for the Jule Styne musical "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", and he collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein II on the book for "Flower Drum Song". He also co-produced and wrote the screen adaptation of the latter, garnering a Writers
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel) as a book by Boni & Liveright in 1925 and became a runaway best seller, becoming the second best selling title of 1926 and earning the praise of no less than Edith Wharton who dubbed it "The Great American Novel." A sequel, "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes", was published two years later. Responding to a male friend’s suggestion that she should write down her thoughts because it would make an interesting book, the blonde Lorelei Lee narrates the novel in the form of a diary complete with spelling and grammatical errors. Lorelei Lee had been working in movies in Hollywood when