When was the television show “Designing Women” starring Dixie Carter on the air?”
Dixie Carter, who was already a Broadway and television veteran when she found perhaps her perfect part as the wiser and wittier half of a pair of Southern sisters who ran an Atlanta interior decorating firm in “Designing Women,” has died, her publicist said Sunday. Carter died Saturday in Houston of complications of endometrial cancer, Steve Rohr told The Associated Press. She was 70. The Tennessee native used her unmistakable Southern accent and style on series like “Diff’rent Strokes” and “Filthy Rich” before landing the role of Julia Sugarbaker on “Designing Women,” the CBS sitcom that ran from 1986-1993 and had an endless life in reruns. She was nominated for an Emmy in 2007 for a celebrated seven-episode guest stint on the ABC hit “Desperate Housewives.” “This has been a terrible blow to our family,” Carter’s husband and fellow actor Hal Holbrook said in a written statement. “We would appreciate everyone understanding that this is a private family tragedy.” Carter lived with Holb
Designing Women star Dixie Carter, whose Southern charm and natural beauty won her a host of television roles, has died at age 70. Carter died Saturday morning, according to publicist Steve Rohr, who represents Carter and her husband, actor Hal Holbrook. He declined to disclose the cause of death or where she died. Carter lived with Holbrook in the Los Angeles area. “This has been a terrible blow to our family,” Holbrook said in a written statement. “We would appreciate everyone understanding that this is a private family tragedy.” A native of Tennessee, Carter was most famous for playing wisecracking Southerner Julia Sugarbaker for seven years on Designing Women, the CBS sitcom that ran from 1986 to 1993. The series was the peak of a career in which she often played wealthy and self-important but independent Southern women. She was nominated for an Emmy in 2007 for her seven-episode guest stint on the ABC hit Desperate Housewives.
Designing Women is an American television sitcom that centered on the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. It aired on the CBS television network from September 29, 1986 until May 24, 1993. The show was created by writer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who wrote many of the episodes in the show’s initial seasons. Premise Sisters Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter) and Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) are polar opposites. Julia is an elegant, outspoken liberal intellectual; Suzanne is a rich, flashy, often self-centered former beauty queen and Miss Georgia World. They are constantly at personal odds but have launched Sugarbaker Designs, an interior design firm. Julia manages the company while Suzanne is mostly a financial backer who simply hangs around and annoys everyone under the guise of being the firm’s salesperson.
