Hearts in Dixie (1929) starring Stepin Fetchit was one of the first all-"talkie", big-studio productions to boast a predominantly African-American cast.

Walter Weems wrote the screenplay, and William Fox was producer.

The film is a series of unconnected scenes celebrating the advent of sound technology in the context of "black music".

Hearts in Dixie unfolds as a series of sketches of life among American blacks.

Although the characters are not slaves they are nevertheless racial stereotypes in terms of the contemporary white images of the period.