Dixie Lee

Acting

Dixie Lee

Born — Died

1911-11-04 — 1952-11-01

Place of birth

Harriman, Tennessee, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

14 titles

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 …

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 10 titles

Redheads on Parade poster
9.0

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.

Redheads on Parade

1935

Let's Go Places poster
9.0

A musical comedy in which a young and ambitious singer impersonates a famous operatic tenor.

Let's Go Places

1930

Quick Millions poster
7.3

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.

Quick Millions

1931

Harmony at Home poster
8.0

This comedy story of Joe Haller unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Haller keeping the suitors away from her daughters by discussing marriage.

Harmony at Home

1930

Cheer Up and Smile poster
10.0

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.

Cheer Up and Smile

1930

Night Life in Reno poster
4.5

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.

Night Life in Reno

1931

Manhattan Love Song poster
5.7

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.

Manhattan Love Song

1934

The Big Party poster
4.7

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.

The Big Party

1930

No Limit poster
6.0

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.

No Limit

1931

Love in Bloom poster
5.8

A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York and becomes involved with a young songwriter.

Love in Bloom

1935