Dixie Carter
Birthday:
25 May 1939, McLemoresville, Tennessee, USA
Birth Name:
Dixie Virginia Carter
Height:
165 cm
Dixie is the middle of three children. Her father owned several small retail stores. Early on, she dreamed of being an opera singer, but a botched tonsillectomy at age 7 spoiled any chances for that dream. Still, she sang regularly and studied classical music. She can play the piano, trumpet, and the harmonica. She graduated from Memphis State with...
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Dixie is the middle of three children. Her father owned several small retail stores. Early on, she dreamed of being an opera singer, but a botched tonsillectomy at age 7 spoiled any chances for that dream. Still, she sang regularly and studied classical music. She can play the piano, trumpet, and the harmonica. She graduated from Memphis State with an English degree. In 1960, she made her professional debut in a local production of "Carousel". Three year's later, she moved to New York and landed a role in Joseph Papp's production of Shakespeare's "A Winter's Tale". When she married businessman, Arthur Carter, she left the stage for eight years to raise two daughters, Ginna Carter - now an actress and Mary Dixie Carter, a screenwriter. At age 35, she returned to acting, but found that no agent wanted to give her a chance. A second marriage to Broadway actor, George Hearn, quickly ended. Show less «
Certainly if we hope to enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great la...Show more »
Certainly if we hope to enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor. Show less «
It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
What a great relief not to try so hard to be pleasing in one's life. At one time it used to matter to me if I were attractive to people. I t...Show more »
What a great relief not to try so hard to be pleasing in one's life. At one time it used to matter to me if I were attractive to people. I tried to be pretty and tried all those products on the commercials, and all the magazine beauty hints. Show less «
Designing Women had seven years and that's history -- I call that history, and I miss my companions on that show all the time. I don't watch...Show more »
Designing Women had seven years and that's history -- I call that history, and I miss my companions on that show all the time. I don't watch the reruns because it makes me sad. Show less «
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