Dixie Lee
Also Known As: Dixie Lee Crosby, Wilma Winifred Wyatt
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wilma Winifred Wyatt (November 4, 1911 – November 1, 1952) better known as Dixie Lee was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She was the first wife of singer Bing Crosby. Born Wilma Winifred Wyatt in Harriman, Tennessee on November 4, 1911 to Evan Wyatt and the former Nora Scarborough. She adopted the professional name "Dixie Carroll" to enter an amateur singing contest in Chicago in May, 1928. She won the contest and the prize was a job as a singer at a roadhouse called College Inn. Whilst working there, she was spotted by a talent scout and given a part in the traveling company of Good News. A film contract was subsequently offered and Winfield Sheehan of the Fox film studio changed her name to Dixie Lee, to avoid confusion with actresses Nancy Carroll and Sue Carol. She appeared in at least 16 films from 1929 to 1935.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Harriman, Tennessee, USA
Birthday: November 04, 1911
Deathday: November 01, 1952
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Why Leave Home?
Overview: Fox musical.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-01
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Harmony at Home
Overview: This comedy story of Joe Haller unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Haller keeping the suitors away from her daughters by discussing marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-12
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Manhattan Love Song
Overview: After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-29
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Love in Bloom
Overview: A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York and becomes involved with a young songwriter.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Cheer Up and Smile
Overview: When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-22
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No Limit
Overview: Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne'er-do-well gambler.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-15
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Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
Overview: Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-25
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Night Life in Reno
Overview: A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy prompts his wife, June, to make a trip to Reno, Nevada in order to get a quickie six-week-waiting-period divorce. John, penitent over his past actions (since he got caught), follows his wife to Reno and manages a reconciliation after a murder gives him a chance to prove his true devotion.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Quick Millions
Overview: A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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Happy Days
Overview: Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-16
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Redheads on Parade
Overview: A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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The Big Party
Overview: Kitty Collins and Flo Jenkins, a couple of jazz-age cuties with bobbed-hair and rolled-stockings, go in search of good-times and whoopee-making. The party they find also includes some out-of-town, butter-and-egg millionaires whose definition of whoopee is not the same as the one Kitty and Flo have. The wives of the millionaires also have a different-and-dim view on the matter.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-23
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Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
Overview: Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in with his intimate, laid-back voice and innate charm. Narrated by Stanley Tucci and directed by Robert Trachtenberg, this film explores the life and legend of this iconic performer, revealing a personality far more complex than the image the public had only thought they'd known.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-02
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