

The Story of Stephen C. Foster - The Great American Troubadour
December 29, 1939
1h 24m
EN
Sidney Lanfield
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 Ameche
Stephen Foster

Andrea Leeds
Jane McDowell Foster

Al Jolson
Edwin P. Christy

Felix Bressart
Henry Kleber


Philip Dunne, John Taintor Foote
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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)

20th Century Fox
US