Swanee River

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.

Details

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

Al Herman

Tambo

Charles Trowbridge

Mr. Foster

George Meeker

Henry Foster

Leona Roberts

Mrs. Foster

Charles Tannen

Morrison Foster

Clara Blandick

Mrs. Griffin

Harry Hayden

Erwin

Esther Dale

Temperance Woman