Movie

Swanee River (1939)

• NR
• December 29, 1939
• 1h 24m

• Drama
• Music
• Thriller

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

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.

Director

Sidney Lanfield

Writers

John Taintor Foote, Philip Dunne

Starring

Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson