Dixie Carter Designing Women
Created by linda bloodworth thomason.
Dixie carter designing women. One of the all time great sitcom monologues. Terminator scene from third season episode the candidate. Early on she dreamed of being an opera singer but a botched tonsillectomy at age 7 spoiled any chances for that dream. The misadventures of four women and their handyman running a design firm in atlanta georgia.
Still she sang regularly and studied classical music. Dixie is the middle of three children. She can play the piano trumpet and the harmonica. A talented actress in both stage and screen and television and also a singer of opera and dancer dixie carter is best known for her portrayal as the soft spoken southerner julia sugarbaker in designing women 1986.
She was nominated for the 2007 primetime emmy award for outstanding guest actress in a comedy series for her role as gloria hodge on. Dixie virginia carter may 25 1939 april 10 2010 was an american film television and stage actress and singer. With delta burke dixie carter annie potts meshach taylor. Julia sugarbaker lets miss georgia have it when she overhears her insulting suzanne.
She s been known for performing in a number of broadway plays and with her marriage to actor hal holbrook nothing seems to slow dixie down.