Can This Be Dixie?
Directed by	George Marshall
Written by	George Marshall Lamar Trotti
Produced by	Sol M. Wurtzel
Starring	Jane Withers Slim Summerville Helen Wood Thomas Beck Sara Haden Claude Gillingwater Donald Cook
Cinematography	Bert Glennon Ernest Palmer
Edited by	Louis R. Loeffler
Music by	Emil Gerstenberger Joe Glover Samuel Kaylin Gene Rose
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	November 13, 1936 (1936-11-13)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Can This Be Dixie? is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by George Marshall and featuring child star Jane Withers along with Slim Summerville and Helen Wood.

In 1937 and 1938, Withers became one of the top 10 box-office stars in the United States, despite her status as Fox's second-tier child star (behind Shirley Temple). On a shooting schedule that allowed 21 to 24 days per picture, she acquired the nickname "One-Take Withers",^[1] and produced four or five films a year.

The level of comedy can be assessed by the names of the characters, the names of the musical numbers ("Pick, Pick, Pickaninny," "Uncle Tom's Cabin is a Cabaret Now"), and the fact that Withers appeared in blackface. Some even more racially offensive material was challenged by co-star Hattie McDaniel and removed from the picture.^[2]

Plot

Peg Gurgle, who, with her uncle Robert E. Lee Gurgle, runs a traveling musical patent medicine show through the deep south. When they encounter a plantation owner named Colonel Robert E. Lee Peachtree, their luck picks up when the Colonel buys a bottle of their elixir for each one of his plantation field hands. When the sheriff impounds their wagon, the Gurgles stay on with the Colonel and helps defend his mansion against Yankees and bankers.

Cast

References

External links

• Can This Be Dixie? at IMDb
• Turner Classic Movies page