Dixiana (film)
Dixiana 1930 is a lavish American musical film directed by Luther Reed and produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The final third of the picture was photographed in Technicolor. The film stars Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Joseph Cawthorn, Jobyna Howland, Ralf Harolde, Bill Bojangles Robinson in his film debut and Dorothy Lee. The script was adapted by Luther Reed from a story by Anne Caldwell. The Technicolor sequences were considered lost for years but were rediscovered in 1988 and subsequently included in the restored DVD. At the end of 1958, the film entered the public domain in the USA due to RKOs failure to renew their copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.
Dixiana Caldwell and her friends, Peewee and Ginger, are circus performers in the antebellum South. When Dixiana falls in love with a young Southern aristocrat, Carl Van Horn, she leaves the circus where she is employed and, with Peewee and Ginger, accompanies Carl to his familys plantation in order to meet Van Horns family. At first thrilled with the news of their impending nuptials, Carls father and stepmother, Cornelius and Birdie Van Horn, throw a lavish party for the couple. However, Peewee and Ginger inadvertently disclose Dixianas background as a circus performer, creating a scandal for the elder Van Horns.Asked by the stepmother to leave in disgrace, Dixiana and her friends return to New Orleans, seeking to gain reemployment from her former employer at the Cayetano Circus Theatre, but they are regretfully refused by him, due to way she had departed. Desperate, she takes employment at a local gambling hall, run by Royal Montague, who also has personal designs on Dixiana. As part of his plan, he intends to financially ruin Carl and his family and use Dixiana to accomplish that purpose. ........
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