South of Dixie (1944)

Director: Jean Yarbrough

To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.

Cast

Anne Gwynne

Dixie Holister

David Bruce

Danny Lee

Jerome Cowan

Bill 'Brains' Watson

Ella Mae Morse

Barbara Ann Morgan

Joe Sawyer

Ernest Hatcher

Samuel S. Hinds

Colonel Andrew J. Morgan

Eddie Acuff

Jay Hatcher

Marie Harmon

Annabella Hatcher

Oscar O'Shea

Colonel Hatcher

Louise Beavers

Magnolia Brown / Chloe