DESIGNING WOMAN DIXIE CARTER DEAD AT 70
Dixie Carter"Designing Women" legend Dixie Carter has died at age the age of 70. Carter died Saturday morning, according to publicist Steve Rohr, who represents Carter and her husband, Hollywood star Hal Holbrook. He refused to disclose the cause of death to media outlets, or where she died. Carter lived with Holbrook in the Los Angeles California area. "This has been a terrible blow to our family," Holbrook said in a written statement. "We would appreciate everyone understanding that this is a private family tragedy." A born and breed native of Tennessee, Carter was very famous for playing the wisecracking Southerner Julia Sugarbaker for seven years on the hit television show "Designing Women,". The wacky show ran from 1986 to 1993. Carter was nominated for an Emmy in 2007 for her seven-episode guest stint on the ABC show "Desperate Housewives." Carter's other credits include roles on the series "Family Law" and "Different Strokes." She married actor Hal Holbrook in 1984. The two had met four years earlier while making the television movie "The Killing of Randy Webster," . They wed two years before Carter landed her role on "Designing Women." Holbrook also appeared on the show regularly in the late 1980s as her boyfriend, Reese Watson. The two appeared together in her final project, the 2009 independent film "That Evening Sun," shot in Tennessee and based on a short story by Southern novelist William Gay. The middle of three children, Carter was born in 1939 in McLemoresville, Tenn. Carter is survived by daughters Mary Dixie and Ginna.
Editors Note: I met Dixie Carter many times over the years. I remember one night outside a Broadway theatre, I accidentally called her Delta. She looked at me and said I must be thinking about the other woman, and said she goes by the name of Dixie. She laughed and gladly posed for endless photos and signed so many autographs for the fans. Dixie had that old Hollywood class. She knew photos and autographs were part of being a star. Her fans seemed very important to her as she talked to them and posed for pics. The Hollywood stars of the past had class, and Dixie was overflowing with it!
Photo By: Walter McBride/Retna
Editors Note: I met Dixie Carter many times over the years. I remember one night outside a Broadway theatre, I accidentally called her Delta. She looked at me and said I must be thinking about the other woman, and said she goes by the name of Dixie. She laughed and gladly posed for endless photos and signed so many autographs for the fans. Dixie had that old Hollywood class. She knew photos and autographs were part of being a star. Her fans seemed very important to her as she talked to them and posed for pics. The Hollywood stars of the past had class, and Dixie was overflowing with it!
Photo By: Walter McBride/Retna
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