Dixie (1943)
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and sounded exactly like Bing Crosby! Very loosely based on the real Emmett's life and career, the film is essentially an excuse for an unending stream of Southern-fried ballads and boisterous blackface production numbers. The best scenes involve Emmet's creation of the minstrel tradition, helped along by Billy De Wolfe as the original "Mr. Bones." As Emmet's sweetheart Millie Cook, Dorothy Lamour has less to do than fourth-billed Marjorie Reynolds as Jean Mason, the physically challenged girl whom Emmet ultimately marries. In the midst of several old-time musical numbers, Bing Crosby introduces one of his lasting hits, "Sunday, Monday and Always". ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Bing Crosby - Daniel Decatur Emmett
- Billy De Wolfe - Mr. Bones
- Lynne Overman - Mr. Whitlock
- Eddie Foy, Jr. - Mr. Felham
- Tom Herbert - Homer
- Fortunio Bonanova - Headwaiter
- Josephine Whittell - Woman in Restaurant
- Tom Kennedy - Barkeeper
- Harry C. Bradley - Publisher
- John Miller - Minstrel
- Wilbur Mack - Publisher's assistant
- Donald Kerr - Minstrel
- Dell Henderson - Stage manager
- George Anderson - Publisher
- Jimmy Ray
- Charles Mayon - Minstrel
- Allan Ray - Minstrel
- Warren Jackson - Minstrel
- Willie Best - Steward
- Louis Da Pron - Dancer
- Norma Varden - Mrs. La Plant
- Fred Santley - Minstrel
- Cyril Ring
- James Burke - River boat captain
- Ethel Clayton - Woman
- Dudley Dickerson
- Sam Flint - Southern Colonel
- Dorothy Lamour - Millie Cook
- Marjorie Reynolds - Jean Mason
- Raymond Walburn - Mr. Cook
- Grant Mitchell - Mr. Mason
- Robert Warwick - Mr. La Plant
- Brandon Hurst - Dignified man in audience
- Charles Moore - News Vendor
- Charles La Torre - Capt. of Waiters
- Jack Perrin - Fireman
- Paul McVey - Headwaiter in Restaurant
- Hope Landin - Mrs. Masters
- Olin Howland - Mr. Devereaux
- William Halligan - Publisher
- Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer - Boy
- Hal Rand
- Jimmy Clemons - Minstrel Show
- Jerry James - Minstrel
- Clara Blandick - Mrs. Mason
- Stanley Andrews - Mr. Masters
- Harry Barris - Drummer
- Harry Tyler - Blind man
- Henry Roquemore - Man in audience
- George H. Reed - Lucius
- Charles Cane
- Jimmy Conlin - Publisher
- Edward Emerson
- Director(s):
- Edward Sutherland
- Writer(s):
- Karl Tunberg, Claude Binyon, Darrell Ware
- Producer(s):
- Paul Jones
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