Swanee River (1939)
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.
- Released
- 1939-12-29
- Genres
- Drama, Music, Thriller
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Sidney Lanfield, John Taintor Foote, Philip Dunne
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 4 votes
Cast
- Don Ameche as Stephen Foster
- Andrea Leeds as Jane McDowell Foster
- Al Jolson as Edwin P. Christy
- Felix Bressart as Henry Kleber
- Chick Chandler as Bones
- Russell Hicks as Andrew McDowell
- Diane Fisher as Marion Foster
- George P. Breakston as Ambrose
- Nella Walker as Mrs. McDowell
- Mae Marsh as Mrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)
- George H. Reed as Old Joe, McDowell's Coachman
- Richard Clarke as Tom Harper