Dixie (film)

Dixie
Directed by	A. Edward Sutherland
Produced by	Paul Jones
Written by	Claude Binyon (adaptation) William Rankin (story) Karl Tunberg Darrell Ware
Starring	Bing Crosby Billy DeWolfe Dorothy Lamour Marjorie Reynolds
Music by	Jimmy Van Heusen Johnny Burke
Cinematography	William C. Mellor
Editing by	William Shea
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	June 23, 1943
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Dixie is a 1943 Technicolor biographical film of American songwriter Daniel Decatur Emmett, starring Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. The movie is a musical directed by A. Edward Sutherland.

The movie was only a moderate success and received mixed reviews. Contrary to rumor, it has not been withdrawn from circulation due to racial issues (Crosby at one point appears in blackface during a song number) but is simply one of hundreds of vintage Paramount Pictures from the 1930s and 1940s now owned by Universal and not actively marketed. The movie was broadcast several times in the late 1980s on American Movie Classics channel.

The movie did produce one of Crosby's most popular songs, "Sunday, Monday, or Always".

Cast

• Bing Crosby as Daniel Decatur Emmett
• Dorothy Lamour as Millie Cook
• Billy De Wolfe as Mr. Bones
• Marjorie Reynolds as Jean Mason
• Lynne Overman as Mr. Whitlock
• Eddie Foy, Jr. as Mr. Felham
• Raymond Walburn as Mr. Cook
• Grant Mitchell as Mr. Mason
• Clara Blandick as Mrs. Mason
• Tom Herbert as Homer
• Olin Howland as Mr. Deveraux (as Olin Howlin)
• Robert Warwick as Mr. LaPlant

External links

• Dixie at the Internet Movie Database