11 Facts About Dixie Lee

Dixie Lee was the first wife of singer Bing Crosby.

Dixie Lee won the contest and the prize was a job as a singer at a roadhouse called College Inn.

Dixie Lee met Bing Crosby at the age of 20 and they married on September 29,1930, at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Hollywood.

Dixie Lee was better known than Crosby at that time, as illustrated by the incorrect news release issued by the Associated Press, which reported she married "Murray Crosey".

Dixie Lee had gone with a party of friends to Agua Caliente in Tijuana for the weekend.

The girl got Crosby on the long-distance telephone and presently he and Dixie Lee were talking to each other.

Dixie Lee made two appearances on the Shell Chateau radio program in 1935, and she made three more films.

Dixie Lee made a couple of records on March 11,1935, "You've Got Me Doing Things," a song she introduced in the film Love in Bloom.

Dixie Lee succeeded in curbing Bing's alcohol consumption, but her own alcoholism worsened.

Dixie Lee had been spending much of his time at his home at Pebble Beach.

Dixie Lee died from ovarian cancer on November 1,1952, three days shy of her 43rd birthday.