Can This Be Dixie? (1936)
This musical satire parodies Southern living as it follows the exploits of a traveling medicine show that ends up on a bankrupt plantation. It is just as well as Doc Gurgle and his daughter have just lost their show. The plantation is run by a Kentucky colonel. Young Miss Gurgle and her pa decide to help save the plantation by putting on an amateur show in the stately mansion. She is assisted by the enthusiastic plantation workers. Songs include: "Uncle Tom's Cabin Is a Cabaret Now." ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jane Withers, Helen Wood, (more)
- Director(s):
- George Marshall
Synopsis of Can This Be Dixie?
This musical satire parodies Southern living as it follows the exploits of a traveling medicine show that ends up on a bankrupt plantation. It is just as well as Doc Gurgle and his daughter have just lost their show. The plantation is run by a Kentucky colonel. Young Miss Gurgle and her pa decide to help save the plantation by putting on an amateur show in the stately mansion. She is assisted by the enthusiastic plantation workers. Songs include: "Uncle Tom's Cabin Is a Cabaret Now." ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Complete Cast of Can This Be Dixie?
- Jane Withers - Peg Gurgle
- Thomas Beck - Ulysses S. Sherman
- Donald Cook - Longstreet Butler
- Jed Prouty - Ed Grant
- Troy Brown - Jeff Davis Brunch
- Ferdinand Munier - Mozart Beethoven von Peachtree
- William Worthington - George Washington Peachtree
- George "Slim" Summerville - Robert E. Lee Gurgle
- Helen Wood - Virginia Peachtree
- Sara Haden - Miss Beauregard Peachtree
- James Burke - Sheriff N.B.F. Rider
- Hattie McDaniel - Lizzie
- Robert Warwick - Gen. Beauregard Peachtree
- Billy Bletcher - John P. Smith Peachtree
- Otis Harlan - Thomas Jefferson Peachtree
- Claude Gillingwater - Col. Robert Peachtree
- Director(s):
- George Marshall
- Writer(s):
- Lamar Trotti
- Producer(s):
- Sol Wurtzel
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