Dixie(1943)

movie - first aired/released 1943-06-23 - 89 min - audience 5.0

Music, Comedy

Directed by A. Edward Sutherland

A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."