A fictional account of the life of songwriter and entertainer Daniel Decatur Emmett. Crosby is the songwriter who leaves his Kentucky home to make it big in New Orleans. On a riverboat he is cheated out of all his money by card shark De Wolfe. In New Orleans, after threatening De Wolfe,
Crosby becomes his friend. Crosby meets and plans to marry Lamour, but when he goes back to his hometown to tell his fiancee, Reynolds, he finds that she has polio, and he ends up marrying her. They go to New York where he sells a few of his songs, but gets little money for his efforts. No one
will touch his song "Dixie." Crosby returns to New Orleans and starts the first minstrel s...
Released:
1943
Rated:
NR
Length:
89 mins