"Designing Women" Star Dixie Carter Dies At 70
On Saturday morning, Dixie Carter has died at a Houston hospital of complications from cancer at the age of 70.
Dixie became famous for her role of Julia Sugarbaker on the long-running CBS sitcom "Designing Women".
Her husband, actor Hal Holbrook, said in a written statement, "This has been a terrible blow to our family,"
"We would appreciate everyone understanding that this is a private family tragedy."
Dixie Carter was a stage actress for long as well as cabaret singer. But she rose to stardom with television sitcom "Designing Women". The show ran from 1986 to 1993 and many many reruns.
In 1999, Carter told the Palm Beach Post, "The show was written just for us,"
"We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest." She was referring to the original leads: Carter, Delta Burke, Annie Potts and Jean Smart.
Speaking to the Associated Press at a 2006 cast reunion, she said, "It was something so unique, because there had never been anything quite like it. We had Lucy and Ethel, but we never had that exponentially expanded, smart, attractive women who read newspapers and had passions about things and loved each other and stood by each other."
Carter is survived by her husband Holbrook and daughters Mary Dixie and Ginna and a sister, Melba Helen Heath. She was divorced from Arthur Carter and actor George Hearn.
