Dixie Carter The epitomical "Southern belle," radiant with finesse, grace, and an aura of down-home hospitality, Tennessee-born actress and chanteuse Dixie Carter been given her broadest publicity on tv owing to two memorable sitcom roles: that of Tv set exercise hostess Maggie McKinney, spunky intimate partner and wife of millionaire Philip Drummond (Conrad Bain), on Diff'rent Strokes, and that of Julia Sugarbaker, Atlanta vogue designer extraordinaire, relating to the long-running Thomason-produced sitcom Creating Women. Carter was born in McLemoresville, TN, the daughter of two grocery-store proprietors. To be a younger woman, she projected a heightened present for song. She examined music at Rhodes Faculty in Memphis, then moved to Manhattan in 1963 to launch herself to be a musical-theater...