Swanee River

Name: Swanee River
Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller
Released: 1939-12-29
Duration: 1 h 24 min
Cast: Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, Felix Bressart, Chick Chandler

1939 · Sidney Lanfield · 84 min

The Story of Stephen C. Foster - The Great American Troubadour

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.

Don AmecheStephen Foster

Andrea LeedsJane McDowell Foster

Al JolsonEdwin P. Christy

Felix BressartHenry Kleber

Chick ChandlerBones

Russell HicksAndrew McDowell Diane FisherMarion Foster

George P. BreakstonAmbrose

Nella WalkerMrs. McDowell

Mae MarshMrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)

George H. ReedOld Joe, McDowell's Coachman

Richard ClarkeTom Harper Al HermanTambo

Charles TrowbridgeMr. Foster

George MeekerHenry Foster

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