As a young girl, there are certain things that my mom and I had in common. Other than being females and having similar cheekbones, we both loved to watch the Golden Girls and Designing Women.
What can I say? I was mature to be 8 years old. I don’t remember exactly when it debuted on CBS but I do recall watching it with my mom and a bucket of popcorn.
My love for these shows that followed the lives of these women (who looked nothing like me) didn’t stop at home. My friends and I would often try to create our own clubs and compare ourselves to the cast members based on our own personalities. If memory serves me correctly, we even had a group called, “The Golden Girls”.
While Betty White from the “Golden Girls” attracts a new group of fans, one of the star actresses from my other favorite childhood sitcom has passed.
On April 10th Dixie Carter died. Who is that you ask? Well she was one of the main characters of “Designing Women”, a popular series that aired until 1993. In the series she played Julia Sugarbaker the sister of Suzanne Sugarbaker played by Delta Burke. The show was centered on the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia.
In addition to starring in a number of television shows and movies, she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Desperate Housewives in 2007. The Dixie Carter Performing Arts and Academic Enrichment Center (informally called “The Dixie”) in Huntingdon, Tennessee is named in honor of Carter.
Dixie Carter’s husband and actor Hal Holbrook announced that the cause of death was due to complications from endometrial cancer. Carter and Holbrook lived in Beverly Hills, California. In addition to Mr. Holbrook, she is survived by her daughters, Ginna Carter of Los Angeles and Mary Dixie Carter of Brooklyn; a sister Melba Helen Heath of San Anselmo, Calif. and several nieces and nephews.
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I absolutely loved “Designing Women” I loved something about the fact that they all worked together with distinct and valued personalities.
And indeed Julia Sugarbaker was my favorite. I wanted to be like her .. she had spunk, her own style, she didn’t allow anyone to cross her or not respect her.
Dixie Carter will be missed.