SWANEE RIVER (1939)
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Swanee River
The Story of Stephen C. Foster - The Great American Troubadour
Drama, Music, Thriller
December 29, 1939
English
1h 24m
United States
20th Century Fox
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.
Cast & Characters
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
Diane Fisher
Marion Foster
George P. Breakston
Ambrose
Nella Walker
Mrs. McDowell
Mae Marsh
Mrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)
George H. Reed
Old Joe, McDowell's Coachman
Richard Clarke
Tom Harper
Al Herman
Tambo
Charles Trowbridge
Mr. Foster
George Meeker
Henry Foster
Leona Roberts
Mrs. Foster
Charles Tannen
Morrison Foster
Clara Blandick
Mrs. Griffin
Harry Hayden
Erwin
Esther Dale
Temperance Woman
Herbert Ashley
Detective
Matthew Beard
Negro Boy
Georgie Billings
Office Boy
James Blaine
Bartender
Georgia Caine
Ann Rowan
Crew
Sidney Lanfield
Director
John Taintor Foote
Screenplay
Philip Dunne
Screenplay
Louis Silvers
Original Music Composer
Bert Glennon
Director of Photography
Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer