An n-tuple (n ≥ 2), T = (T 1 , . . . , T n ), of commuting bounded linear operators on a Hilbert space H is doubly commuting if T i T * j = T * j T i for all 1 ≤ i < j ≤ n. If in addition, each T i ∈ C •0 , then we say that T is a doubly commuting pure tuple. In this paper we prove that a doubly commuting pure tuple T can be dilated to a tuple of shift operators on some suitable vector-valued Hardy space H 2 D T * (D n ). As a consequence of the dilation theorem, we prove that there exists a closed subspace S T of the formwhere) is either a one variable inner function in z i , or the zero function.