Swanee River (1939)
"The Story of Stephen C. Foster - The Great American Troubadour"
Drama
Music
Thriller
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Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Cast
Don Ameche
Stephen Foster
Andrea Leeds
Jane McDowell Foster
Al Jolson
Edwin P. Christy
Felix Bressart
Henry Kleber
Chick Chandler
Bones
Russell Hicks
Andrew McDowell
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Diane Fisher
Marion Foster
George P. Breakston
Ambrose
Nella Walker
Mrs. McDowell
Mae Marsh
Mrs. Jonathan Fry (u...
George H. Reed
Old Joe, McDowell's...
Richard Clarke
Tom Harper
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Al Herman
Tambo
Charles Trowbridge
Mr. Foster
George Meeker
Henry Foster