Movie

Swanee River

★ 7/10 · 4 votes 1939 1h 24m Released

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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

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