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Swanee River

The Story of Stephen C. Foster - The Great American Troubadour

7.019391h 24mNR
DramaMusicThriller

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.

Directed by Sidney Lanfield

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Cast

Don Ameche

Don Ameche

Stephen Foster

Andrea Leeds

Andrea Leeds

Jane McDowell Foster

Al Jolson

Al Jolson

Edwin P. Christy

Felix Bressart

Felix Bressart

Henry Kleber

Chick Chandler

Chick Chandler

Bones

Russell Hicks

Russell Hicks

Andrew McDowell

Diane Fisher

Marion Foster

George P. Breakston

George P. Breakston

Ambrose

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