Dixiana (1930)
Dixiana (1930) is a lavish American musical film directed by Luther Reed and produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The final third of the picture was photographed in Technicolor. The film stars Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Joseph Cawthorn, Jobyna Howland, Ralf Harolde and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (in his film debut). The script was adapted by Luther Reed from a story by Anne Caldwell. The Technicolor sequences were considered lost for years, but were re-discovered in 1988 and subsequently included in the restored DVD. In 1958, the film entered the public domain (in the USA) due to the claimants failure to renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.
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