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Years active
  
1932–1947

Name
  
Lee Dixon


Role
  
Actor

Awards
  
Grammy Hall of Fame

Lee Dixon (actor)

Born
  
January 22, 1914 (
1914-01-22
)
Brooklyn, New York, USA

Occupation
  
Stage & vaudeville actor

Died
  
January 8, 1953, New York City, New York, United States

Movies
  
Ready, Willing, and Able, Double or Nothing, A Modern Cinderella

Albums
  
Rodgers: Oklahoma! (Original Broadway Cast) (1943)

Similar People
  
Celeste Holm, Joan Roberts, Alfred Drake, Betty Garde, Howard Da Silva

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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.

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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 subject)
  • Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
  • Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
  • The Singing Marine (1937)
  • Varsity Show (1937)
  • Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938, short subject)
  • Double or Nothing (1940 film) (1940, short subject)
  • Double Rhythm (a.k.a. Musical Parade: Double Rhythm) (1946, short subject)
  • Angel and the Badman (a.k.a. The Angel and the Outlaw) (1947)
  • Broadway

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

    Lee Dixon (actor) Wikipedia