Lee Dixon

Lee Dixon

Born: January 22, 1910
Died: January 8, 1953
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Lee Dixon was an American singing and dancing actor in 1930s and 1940s musical and other films. He appeared also on the Broadway stage.

Movies for Lee Dixon...

Angel and the Badman
Title: Angel and the Badman
Character: Randy McCall
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.
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Double or Nothing
Title: Double or Nothing
Character: Bill
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
In this Broadway Brevities short, a stunt double is hit on the head and imagines himself in a series of movie scenes with doubles for various stars.
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Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
Title: Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
Character: Dixon
Released: April 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The scene is set at Billy Rose's Casa Manana Revue, filmed at the Fort Worth Frontier Fiesta (1937), an enormous production created as part of the Texas Centennial civic celebrations. The opening song, "The Night Is Young And You're So Beautiful" emanated from the first edition of the Revue and became a hit song on two continents in 1936.
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Varsity Show
Title: Varsity Show
Character: Johnny 'Rubberlegs' Stevens
Released: September 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
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The Singing Marine
Title: The Singing Marine
Character: Slim Baxter
Released: July 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
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Ready, Willing and Able
Title: Ready, Willing and Able
Character: Pinky Blair
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
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Gold Diggers of 1937
Title: Gold Diggers of 1937
Character: Boop Oglethorpe
Released: December 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.