Dixie Carter

Dixie Carter (September 1989)

Dixie Virginia Carter (born May 25, 1939 in McLemoresville , Tennessee , † April 10, 2010 in Houston , Texas ) was an American actress .

Life

Carter was born Dixie Virginia Carter and the daughter of grocer and shopkeeper Halbert Leroy Carter and his wife Virginia. She grew up in Memphis , attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and Southwestern College, now Rhodes College , in Memphis. At Memphis State University she earned a degree in English . Carter received classical singing training and learned the piano , trumpet and harmonica .

Carter made her professional actress debut in 1960 as Julie Jordan in a local production of Cole Porter's musical Carousel . In 1963 Carter moved to New York City , where she appeared in Joseph Papp's production of William Shakespeare's late work A Winter's Tale . Carter later appeared on Broadway in the musicals and plays Sextet (1974), Pal Joey by Richard Rodgers (1976), Master Class by Terrence McNally (1995-1997) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (2004). In the early 1990s she appeared in a cabaret program in which she interpreted classic American songs and songs. She last played theater in 2006: In Coconut Grove , Florida , she appeared in 2006 together with Hal Holbrook in the romantic comedy Southern Comfort .

In the mid-1970s, after a family break, Carter attempted a comeback as an actress, but initially couldn't find an agent who would recommend her for bigger roles. During this time she had a few appearances as Assistant District Attorney Olivia Brandeis "Brandy" Henderson in the soap opera The Edge of Night (1974-1976). In the late 1970s, Carter moved from New York to Los Angeles after being offered a role on the television series On Our Own . As April Baxter she played in the series 1977-1978 the educated colleague of two young, naive girls. In 1979 she took on the role of Marion Richards in the television series Out of the Blue . Carter had episode roles in the following years, among others in the television series Bret Maverick , Quincy and Lou Grant .

In 1981 she met her future third husband, actor Hal Holbrook , while filming the television movie Randy's Death . With the role of Carlotta Beck , the snooty wife of a plantation owner, in the television series Filthy Rich (1983), Carter finally laid the foundation for her later successful roles. In 1984/1985 she played in the television series Nochfragen Arnold? as Maggie McKinney, Gary Coleman's lively new stepmother .

Carter's breakthrough came with her role as feisty interior designer Julia Sugarbaker in the sitcom Designing Women , which she embodied in 163 episodes from 1986 to 1993. The series ran in Germany under the title Sugarbaker’s and Mann does not have to be . In 1996, Carter published her autobiography , Trying To Get To Heaven: Opinions of a Tennessee Talker . Further serial roles followed in Ladies Men (1999-2000) and Frauenpower (1999-2002). From 2006 she played in some episodes of the television series Desperate Housewives in the role of Gloria Hodge, the mother of Kyle MacLachlan's character Orson Hodge . For this role, she received an Emmy nomination in 2007 .

Carter last stood in front of the camera at the side of her husband in the film That Evening Sun in late 2009 .

Carter was best known for her embodiment of female characters from the American South . Her personal pride in the achievements of the South was also reflected in her advertising appearances , including for the Southern Bell telephone company .

Private

Carter was married three times in total. In 1967 she married Arthur Carter, an unrelated businessman. The marriage resulted in two daughters, Mary Dixie Carter and Ginna Carter , who both also became actresses. During this time Carter interrupted her career as an actress, was a housewife and mother and devoted herself exclusively to raising children . After her divorce from Carter (1977), she married Broadway and television actor Georg Hearn that same year . The marriage ended in divorce in 1979. On May 27, 1984, she married the actor Hal Holbrook, third marriage . The couple alternated living in Beverly Hills , California and Carter's birthplace, McLemoresville, where Carter's father, who died in 2007, lived in retirement. Carter died in a Houston hospital after complications related to her endometrial cancer .

Filmography

• 1974–1976: The Edge of Night (TV series)
• 1977: Mike Andros - Big City Reporter ( The Andros Targets , TV series, an episode)
• 1977–1978: On Our Own (TV series, 22 episodes)
• 1979: Out of the Blue (TV series, 12 episodes)
• 1980: OHMS (TV movie)
• 1981: Randy's Death ( The Killing of Randy Webster , Movie made for TV)
• 1982: Cassie & Co. (TV series, episode)
• 1982: Bret Maverick (TV series, an episode)
• 1982: Best of the West (TV series, one episode)
• 1982: Quincy ( Quincy, ME , TV series, an episode)
• 1982: The Greatest American Hero (TV series, episode)
• 1982: Lou Grant (TV series, an episode)
• 1982–1983: Filthy Rich (TV series, 15 episodes)
• 1983: Up the trees, you monkeys (Going Berserk)
• 1984–1985: Any more questions Arnold? ( Diff'rent Strokes , TV series, 27 episodes)
• 1986: The Cases of Harry Fox ( Crazy Like a Fox , TV series, episode)
• 1986–1993: Man doesn't have to be ( Designing Women , TV series, 163 episodes)
• 1994: Perry Mason - McKenzie and the extortionate presenter ( A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle , TV movie)
• 1994: The Law on the Neck ( Gambler V: Playing for Keeps , TV movie)
• 1994: Christy (TV series, episode)
• 1995: Die Verblendeten ( Dazzle , TV movie)
• 1995: Diagnosis: Murder ( Diagnosis Murder , TV series, an episode)
• 1996: Gone in the Night (TV movie)
• 1997: Being creative is everything ( Fired Up , TV series, two episodes)
• 1999: My neighbors the Yamadas ( ホ ー ホ ケ キ ョ と な り の 山田 く ん , voice)
• 1999–2000: Ladies Men (TV series, nine episodes)
• 1999–2002: Woman Power ( Family Law , TV series, 68 episodes)
• 2000: The Adventures of Santa Claus ( The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus , Voice)
• 2001: The Big Day
• 2003: Comfort and Joy - What a Christmas present ( Comfort and Joy , TV movie)
• 2004: Sudbury (TV movie)
• 2004: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series, episode)
• 2005: Hope and Faith (TV series, episode)
• 2006–2007: Desperate Housewives (TV series, seven episodes)
• 2008: Our First Christmas (TV movie)
• 2009: That Evening Sun

Web links

Commons : Dixie Carter  - Collection of Images

• Dixie Carter at theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Dixie Carter at the Internet Broadway Database (English)
• Dixie Carter in the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Dixie Carter, TV Actress, Dies at 70 Obituary in: New York Times April 11, 2010
• Dixie Carter in the German dubbing file

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dixie Carter & Hal Holbrook 'Southern Comfort' Broadwayworld, February 25, 2006
2. ↑ Actress Dixie Carter is dead ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Obituary in: Rheinische Post online from April 12, 2010 
3. ^ TV southern bell Dixie Carter dies at 70 The Examiner of April 11, 2010
4. ↑ 'Designing Women' actress Dixie Carter dies at 70; had roots in West Tennessee Associated Press obituary , at The Commercial Appeal.Com, April 10, 2010
5. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
6. ^ "Designing Women" Actress Dixie Carter Die ABC News obituary of April 11, 2010
7. ↑ Designing Women 'star Dixie Carter dies at age 70 ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Entertainment Weekly , accessed April 12, 2010