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R.I.P. Dixie Carter

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The actress Dixie Carter, better known as Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women, died today at the age of 70.

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Oh yeah, I forgot that she played Mr. Drummond's wife on Different Strokes. I liked her character on Desperate Housewives too.
 
Sad Sad news !! She made me smile ! she was a class act !!


herewith - one of her Greatest speeches !! St. Peter better not give her any crap !! that's all i can say !

 
I first "met" Miss Carter, as an actress, when I was 11 years-old. She was playing "Brandy Henderson," a quick witted lawyer on 'The Edge of Night" in 1975, on CBS (before "Edge" moved to ABC).

I remember her as playing the beautiful woman who was trying to take "Edge" hero Adam Drake (played by the late Donald May) away from his true love, Nicole Travis, (the equally beautiful Maeve McGuire).

She starred in many TV films and series, but I think most will remember Miss Carter for her work as "Julia Sugarbaker" on CBS's "Designing Women" with Delta Burke.

Recently, Miss Carter was nominated for an Emmy for her role in seven episodes of "Desparate Housewives."

She was married to actor Hal Holbrook since 1984.

She will be remembered for being being a charming, outspoken, and vivacious actress.

RIP Miss Carter.....
 

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Rest In Peace?

'I do not think so...'

As Dixie would have said on Designing Women.

One of my favourite actresses,
 
The cause of Death is not listed..Her husband (Hal) is in his 80's and I bet he never thought he'd survive her..

Dixie defined "Class & Elegance"...
 
How sad. Designing Women was an amazing show and Dixie Carter made it what it was.
 
ronboy said:
I first "met" Miss Carter, as an actress, when I was 11 years-old. She was playing "Brandy Henderson," a quick witted lawyer on 'The Edge of Night" in 1975, on CBS (before "Edge" moved to ABC).

I remember her as playing the beautiful woman who was trying to take "Edge" hero Adam Drake (played by the late Donald May) away from his true love, Nicole Travis, (the equally beautiful Maeve McGuire).

She starred in many TV films and series, but I think most will remember Miss Carter for her work as "Julia Sugarbaker" on CBS's "Designing Women" with Delta Burke.

Recently, Miss Carter was nominated for an Emmy for her role in seven episodes of "Desparate Housewives."

She was married to actor Hal Holbrook since 1984.

She will be remembered for being being a charming, outspoken, and vivacious actress.

RIP Miss Carter.....
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Let's not forget that she was on One Life to Live back in 1974, playing Dorian Lord when the original actress went on maturnity leave. May Dixie Carter R.I.P and at least one station do a real tribute to Ms Carter.
 
On the bright side, hopefully Lifetime or TV Land will bring back episodes of the show. I've missed seeing episodes in syndication.
 
Anton98 said:
Oh yeah, I forgot that she played Mr. Drummond's wife on Different Strokes. I liked her character on Desperate Housewives too.
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She played Maggie McKinney (no character description given) on 28 episodes of Diff'rent Strokes - but she most certainly did not play Mrs. Drummond -- he had no wife in that series, as far as I know.

Her stage credits are less well known by some, but she was a great great actress on stage as well -- !!
 
^^^True....Mr.Drummond had at least a couple of HOT sophisticated Babes wanting to get with him during the series.....I think The Powers that Be felt a "marriage" would change the dynamic of the show...

Thinking back on "Designing Women" you could tell the Writers LOVED giving Dixie those dramatic monologues where she'd "read" someone...She was good at that...
 
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[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]'Designing Women' actress Dixie Carter dies at 70[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif][FONT=Verdana,Sans-Serif]Email this Story[/FONT]Apr 11, 12:10 AM (ET)

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dixie Carter, the "Designing Women" star who used her Southern charm, quick wit and stately beauty in a host of roles on Broadway and television, died Saturday. She was 70.
Publicist Steve Rohr, who represents Carter and her husband, actor Hal Holbrook, said Carter died Saturday morning. He would not disclose where she died or the cause of death. Carter and Holbrook lived in the Los Angeles 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 native of Tennessee, Carter was most famous for playing wisecracking Southerner Julia Sugarbaker for seven years on "Designing Women," the CBS sitcom that ran from 1986 to 1993. The series was the peak of a career in which she often played wealthy and self-important but independent Southern women.
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She was nominated for an Emmy in 2007 for her seven-episode guest stint on the ABC hit "Desperate Housewives."
Carter's other credits include roles on the series "Family Law" and "Different Strokes."

She married Holbrook in 1984. The two had met four years earlier while making the TV movie "The Killing of Randy Webster," and although attracted to one another, each had suffered two failed marriages and were wary at first.

They finally wed two years before Carter landed her role on "Designing Women." Holbrook 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.
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The middle of three children, Carter was born in 1939 in McLemoresville, Tenn.
Carter was the daughter of a grocery and department store owner who died just three years ago at 96. She said at the time of his death that he taught her to believe in people's essential goodness.
"When I asked him how he handled shoplifting in his new store, which had a lot of goods on display, making it impossible to keep an eye on everything, he said, 'Most people are honest, and if they weren't, you couldn't stay in business because a thief will find a way to steal,'" Carter said. "'You can't really protect yourself, but papa and I built our business believing most people are honest and want to do right by you.'"

Carter grew up in Carroll County and made her stage debut in a 1960 production of "Carousel" in Memphis. It was the beginning of a decades-long stage career in which she relied on her singing voice as much as her acting.

She appeared in TV soap operas in the 1970s, but did not become a national star until her recurring roles on "Different Strokes" and another series, "Filthy Rich," in the 1980s.
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Those two parts led to her role on "Designing Women," a comedy about the lives of four women at an interior design firm in Atlanta.
Carter and Delta Burke played the sparring sisters who ran the firm. The series also starred Annie Potts and Jean Smart.

The show, whose reruns have rarely left the airwaves, was not a typical sitcom. It tackled such topics as sexism, ageism, body image and AIDS.
"It was something so unique, because there had never been anything quite like it," Potts told The Associated Press at a 2006 cast reunion. "We had Lucy and Ethel, but we never had that exponentially expanded, smart, attractive women who read newspapers and had passions about things and loved each other and stood by each other."

Carter appeared on the drama "Family Law" from 1999 to 2002, and in her last major TV appearance she played Gloria Hodge, the surly mother-in-law to Marcia Cross's Bree on "Desperate Housewives."

Carter said the role was far from the kindly woman she played on "Designing Women."

"It's a vast difference," Carter said while filming the series. "Gloria Hodge doesn't have any redeeming qualities except her intelligence." In addition to Holbrook, Carter is survived by daughters Mary Dixie and Ginna.


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Gone but never forgotten. A class act to the end, full of style, dignity, and grace. A true lady in every sense of the word. Ms. Carter, you will be missed.
 
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