Swanee River (1939)
The Story of Stephen C. Foster - The Great American Troubadour
84 min
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.
- Release date
- December 29, 1939
- Country of origin
- United States
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
- George Reed as Old Joe, McDowell's Coachman
- Richard Clarke as Tom Harper
- Diane Fisher as Marion Foster
- George P. Breakston as Ambrose
Crew
- Sidney Lanfield · Director
- John Taintor Foote · Writer
- Philip Dunne · Writer
- Darryl F. Zanuck · Producer
- Bert Glennon · Cinematographer
- Louis R. Loeffler · Editor