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Dixie Dugan (1943)

Directed by Otto Brower

Overview

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a “dollar a year man,” is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country’s men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a “quiz kid.” The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie’s fiancĂ©, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.

Rated NR | Length 63 minutes

Actors

Lois Andrews | James Ellison | Charlotte Greenwood | Charles Ruggles | Helene Reynolds | Raymond Walburn | Ann Todd | Eddie Foy Jr. | Irving Bacon | Sarah Edwards | George Melford | Mae Marsh | Morris Ankrum | Dick French | George Lessey | Paul E. Burns | Ruth Warren | Eddie Dunn | Milton Kibbee | Byron Foulger | Dick Baron | Jack Chefe | Steve Darrell | Harry Denny | Lester Dorr | Frank Faylen | Bess Flowers | Clarence Hennecke | Tom Kennedy | Sam McDaniel | Kitty McHugh | Millard Mitchell | Frances Morris | Cyril Ring | Minerva Urecal | Emmett Vogan | John Wald | Ray Walker | Billy Wayne | Dave Willock | Sam Wren