Dixie (film)

Dixie
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	A. Edward Sutherland
Written by	Karl Tunberg Darrell Ware Claude Binyon (adaptation)
Story by	William Rankin
Produced by	Paul Jones
Starring	Bing Crosby Dorothy Lamour
Cinematography	William C. Mellor
Edited by	William Shea
Music by	Jimmy Van Heusen Johnny Burke
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 23, 1943 (1943-06-23) (New York City)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$3.1 million (U.S. and Canada rentals)[1]

Dixie is a 1943 American biographical film of composer and songwriter Daniel Decatur Emmett directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. Filming in Technicolor, Dixie was only a moderate success and received mixed reviews. Contrary to rumor, it has not been withdrawn from circulation due to racial issues (Crosby appears in blackface during several musical numbers) but is simply one of hundreds of vintage Paramount Pictures from the 1930s and 1940s now owned by Universal and not actively marketed; it was broadcast several times in the late 1980s on the American Movie Classics channel. The film produced one of Crosby's most popular songs, "Sunday, Monday, or Always".