Swanee River

7.0 1939 84 min
NR
Drama Music Thriller

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…

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Director
Sidney Lanfield
Writers
Philip Dunne, John Taintor Foote
Classification
NR

Cast

The cast behind this title

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

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