What caused the death of Dixie Carter, who starred in the TV series Designing Women?”
‘Designing Women’ star Dixie Carter dies of cancer By ANDREW DALTON (AP) – 2 hours ago LOS ANGELES — New details are emerging in the death of “Designing Women” star Dixie Carter. Publicist Steve Rohr told The Associated Press on Sunday that Carter died in Houston of complications of endometrial (en-doh-MEE’-tree-ul) cancer. Carter died Saturday at age 70. Husband and fellow actor Hal Holbrook called a “terrible blow” for their family. The Tennessee native, with her unmistakable Southern accent and style, was a Broadway veteran before she landed a series of high-profile television roles that made her a national star. She found perhaps her perfect part in Julia Sugarbaker, the wiser and wittier half of a pair of sisters who ran an Atlanta interior decorating firm in “Designing Women.” The CBS sitcom that had a seven-year run on the network and an endless life in reruns. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below. LOS ANGELES (AP)
Dixie Carter, an accomplished actress who gave strong, opinionated Southern women a good name in the television series “Designing Women” in the 1980s and 1990s, and later enjoyed success as a cabaret singer, died on Saturday in a Houston hospital. She was 70 and lived in Beverly Hills, Calif. Her death was announced by her husband, the actor Hal Holbrook, who said that the cause was complications of endometrial cancer. In “Designing Women,” which ran for seven seasons on CBS, Ms. Carter’s character, Julia Sugarbaker, was the head of an four-woman interior design business in Atlanta and specialized in sarcasm. “If sex were fast food, there’d be an arch over your bed,” she once snapped at her sister Suzanne (played by Delta Burke). Yet when Julia went into a theatrical tirade, which was often, it usually was in the service of some higher social or political principle.
