Swanee River (1939)
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.
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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
- 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
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