A Southern-born leading lady and singer with hazel eyes and dark brown hair, Dixie Carter made her first professional appearances at Memphis' highly regarded Front Street Theater, playing soprano leads in "Carousel", "Oklahoma!", "Brigadoon", "The King and I", "The Student Prince", "The New Moon" and "Babes in Arms", as well as performing with the Memphis Shakespeare Festival. She made her Off-Broadway debut as Perdita in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of "A Winter's Tale" (1963) but left her promising career to marry and have children. Returning to the stage after an eight-year
