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Film / 1939
Swanee River
Directed by
Sidney Lanfield
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.
The story
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 AmecheStephen Foster
Andrea LeedsJane McDowell Foster
Al JolsonEdwin P. Christy
Felix BressartHenry Kleber
Chick ChandlerBones
Russell HicksAndrew McDowell
Diane FisherMarion Foster
George P. BreakstonAmbrose
Nella WalkerMrs. McDowell
Mae MarshMrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)
George H. ReedOld Joe, McDowell's Coachman
Richard ClarkeTom Harper
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Al HermanTambo
Charles TrowbridgeMr. Foster
George MeekerHenry Foster
Leona RobertsMrs. Foster
Charles TannenMorrison Foster
Clara BlandickMrs. Griffin
Harry HaydenErwin
Esther DaleTemperance Woman
Herbert AshleyDetective
Matthew BeardNegro Boy
Georgie BillingsOffice Boy
James BlaineBartender
Georgia CaineAnn Rowan
Les ClarkSpecialty
Dora ClementNurse
Ruth CliffordBit Role
Hal K. DawsonDrunken Man on Riverboat
Dorothy DearingBit Role
Harry DennyGuest
Harry DeppDresser
Claire Du BreyWoman in Cafe
Edward EarleMaster of Ceremonies
Jesse GravesButler
Kay GriffithBit Role
Charles HaltonPond
John HamiltonDoctor
Eleanor HansenBit Role
Oscar 'Dutch' HendrianAgitator
Tommy HicksFat Boy
Robert HomansSheriff
Jean HoughtonGuest
Selmer JacksonArmy Medical Examiner
Gladden JamesHotel Clerk
Thaddeus JonesDan
Robert Emmett KeaneDrunken Agitator
Wright KramerDoctor
Edward LeSaintJonathan Fry, Justice of the Peace
George MagrillAgitator
Bruce MitchellJailer
Bert MoorhouseAttendant
James C. MortonBartender
Daisy Lee MothershedMaid
Forbes MurrayCritic
David NewellGuest
William NewellBill, Stagehand
George O'HanlonTicket Taker
Arthur RankinClerk
Herbert RawlinsonArmy Officer
Tom SeidelBellboy
Larry SteersMan on Riverboat
Harry StrangBoat Captain
Harry TenbrookJim, Saloon Waiter
Harry TylerPianist
Bruce WarrenOrchestra Leader
Billy WayneAgitator
Cecil WestonLandlady
Lloyd WhitlockCritic
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