Swanee River (1939)

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Original Title: Swanee River

Release Date: December 29, 1939

Runtime: 84 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

Overview

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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TMDB Popularity: 0.88

Cast

Don Ameche

Stephen Foster

Andrea Leeds

Jane McDowell Foster

Al Jolson

Edwin P. Christy

Felix Bressart

Henry Kleber

Russell Hicks

Andrew McDowell

Nella Walker

Mrs. McDowell

Mae Marsh

Mrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)

George H. Reed

Old Joe, McDowell's Coachman

George Meeker

Henry Foster

Leona Roberts

Mrs. Foster

Charles Tannen

Morrison Foster

Clara Blandick

Mrs. Griffin

Esther Dale

Temperance Woman

Les Clark

Specialty

Hal K. Dawson

Drunken Man on Riverboat

Claire Du Brey

Woman in Cafe

Edward Earle

Master of Ceremonies

Selmer Jackson

Army Medical Examiner

Gladden James

Hotel Clerk

Robert Emmett Keane

Drunken Agitator

Edward LeSaint

Jonathan Fry, Justice of the Peace

Crew

Philip Dunne

Screenplay

Bert Glennon

Director of Photography

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