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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
Don AmecheStephen Foster
Andrea LeedsJane McDowell Foster
Al JolsonEdwin P. Christy
Felix BressartHenry Kleber
Chick ChandlerBones
Russell HicksAndrew McDowell
George P. BreakstonAmbrose
Nella WalkerMrs. McDowell
Mae MarshMrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)
George H. ReedOld Joe, McDowell's Coachman
Richard ClarkeTom HarperExplore the crew
- Director
- Sidney Lanfield
- Editor
- Louis R. Loeffler
- Screenplay
- John Taintor Foote
- Producer
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Screenplay
- Philip Dunne
- Director of Photography
- Bert Glennon
- Original Music Composer
- Louis Silvers