DIXIE

Original British 11 inch x 8 1/4 inch Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1943 A. Edward Sutherland Biographical Musical DIXIE, based on a story by William Rankin and starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Marjorie Reynolds, Billy De Wolfe, Lynne Overman, Raymond Walburn and Eddie Foy Jr..

A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: “Dixie.” The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song “Dixie.”

The Advertisement is in very good condition.