- After many years of feuding, Dixie and former co-star Delta Burke have recently become close friends again.
- Dixie won a World Theatre Award for her performance in The Bandit Queen.
- When she married businessman, Arthur Carter, Dixie chose to leave the stage for eight years to raise two daughters.
- In 1960, she made her professinal debut in a local production of the musical Carousel.
- Dixie's daughter, Ginna Carter, is also a screenwriter.
- Dixie's first major TV role was portraying ADA Brandeis 'Brandy' Henderson from 1974-1976 on the soap opera The Edge of Night.
- Dixie can play the piano, trumpet and harmonica.
- Dixie met her current husband Hal Holbrook on the set of the 1981 TV movie, The Killing of Randy Webster. The two played husband and wife.
- At the age of 7, Dixie had to have her tonsils removed.
- Dixie's two dogs are named Paladin and Sweetie Pie.
- In 1996, Dixie authored the book Trying to Get to Heaven.
- Dixie was the matron of honor at her Designing Women co-star Delta Burke's wedding.
- To be cruel, when Dixie was younger some children called her "Horsetooth" because of her large teeth.
- Dixie's favorite novel is Precious Bane by Mary Webb.
- Dixie has been married to fellow actor Hal Holbrook since 1984.
- When Dixie graduated high school in 1957, she was the valedictorian.
- In 1985, Dixie had a face lift at the age of 46.
- She graduated from Memphis State with an English degree.
- Dixie's daughters, Mary Dixie and Ginna Carter, played her nieces in one episode of Designing Women.
- Dixie has her own very successful cabaret and concert career and travels across the country performing each year.
- Did not get along with Designing Women Co-star Delta Burke.
- Carter is her birth name, and her first husband was no relation.
