Swanee River
Drama
Music
Thriller
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.
1939-12-29
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Cast
Director
Sidney Lanfield
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 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
Charles Trowbridge as Mr. Foster
George Meeker as Henry Foster
Leona Roberts as Mrs. Foster
Charles Tannen as Morrison Foster
Clara Blandick as Mrs. Griffin
Harry Hayden as Erwin
Esther Dale as Temperance Woman
Matthew Beard as Negro Boy
James Blaine as Bartender
Georgia Caine as Ann Rowan
Les Clark as Specialty
Dora Clement as Nurse
Ruth Clifford as Bit Role
Hal K. Dawson as Drunken Man on Riverboat
Harry Depp as Dresser
Claire Du Brey as Woman in Cafe
Edward Earle as Master of Ceremonies
Jesse Graves as Butler
Charles Halton as Pond
John Hamilton as Doctor
Eleanor Hansen as Bit Role
Robert Homans as Sheriff
Selmer Jackson as Army Medical Examiner
Gladden James as Hotel Clerk
Robert Emmett Keane as Drunken Agitator
Edward LeSaint as Jonathan Fry, Justice of the Peace
George Magrill as Agitator
James C. Morton as Bartender
Forbes Murray as Critic
David Newell as Guest
William Newell as Bill, Stagehand
George O'Hanlon as Ticket Taker
Arthur Rankin as Clerk
Herbert Rawlinson as Army Officer
Tom Seidel as Bellboy
Larry Steers as Man on Riverboat
Harry Strang as Boat Captain
Harry Tenbrook as Jim, Saloon Waiter
Harry Tyler as Pianist
Billy Wayne as Agitator
Lloyd Whitlock as Critic