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词条 Lee Dixon (actor)
释义

  1. Career

  2. Filmography

  3. Broadway

  4. External links

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Lee Dixon (January 22, 1914 – January 8, 1953) was an actor in 1930s and 1940s. He appeared in Hollywood musicals and other films, as well as on the Broadway stage.

Career

Lee Dixon is best remembered for creating the role of Will Parker in the original Broadway production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! In the summer of 1942, Dixon created the role of the Scarecrow, at The Municipal Opera Association of St. Louis, in the first ever stage production of The Wizard of Oz to use the songs from the 1939 MGM film. Evelyn Wyckoff played Dorothy Gale, Donald Burr played the Tin Man, Edmund Dorsey played the Cowardly Lion, Helen Raymond played the Wicked Witch of the West, Patricia Bowman played the Sorceress of the North, aka Glinda, and John Cherry played the Wizard of Oz.

Filmography

  • A Modern Cinderella (1932, Short) - Male Dancer (uncredited)
  • Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936) - Boop Oglethorpe
  • Ready, Willing and Able (1937) - Pinky Blair
  • The Singing Marine (1937) - Slim Baxter
  • Varsity Show (1937) - Johnny 'Rubberlegs' Stevens
  • Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938, Short) - Dixon
  • Double or Nothing (1940, Short) - Bill
  • Double Rhythm (a.k.a. Musical Parade: Double Rhythm) (1946, short) - Happy
  • Angel and the Badman (a.k.a. The Angel and the Outlaw) (1947) - Randy McCall (final film role)

Broadway

  • Oklahoma! (1943–1948)
  • Higher and Higher (1940)

External links

  • {{IMDb name|0228905|Lee Dixon}}
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  • {{Find a Grave|11231985|Lee Dixon}}
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5 : 1914 births|1953 deaths|American male film actors|American male stage actors|20th-century American male actors

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