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Swanee River (1939)
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
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.
Length 84 minutes
Actors
Felix Bressart | Charles Halton | Mae Marsh | Clara Blandick | Leona Roberts | Russell Hicks | Al Jolson | John Hamilton | George O'Hanlon | Don Ameche | Edward LeSaint | Dora Clement | Hal K. Dawson | Esther Dale | Chick Chandler | Edward Earle | Nella Walker | Herbert Rawlinson | Claire Du Brey | Lloyd Whitlock | Robert Homans | Charles Trowbridge | George Meeker | Harry Hayden | Robert Emmett Keane | William Newell | Harry Tyler | Selmer Jackson | Cecil Weston | Les Clark | Charles Tannen | Billy Wayne | Harry Depp | Richard Clarke | George P. Breakston | James C. Morton | Bert Moorhouse | Dorothy Dearing | George Reed | Arthur Rankin | Harry Strang | Larry Steers | Forbes Murray | Tom Seidel | Diane Fisher | Ruth Clifford | Matthew 'Stymie' Beard | George Magrill | Al Herman | David Newell | Harry Tenbrook | Gladden James | Bruce Warren | Tommy Hicks | Andrea Leeds | Eleanor Hansen | Bruce Mitchell | Georgia Caine | Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian | Georgie Billings | Daisy Lee Mothershed | Kay Griffith | James Blaine | Wright Kramer | Herbert Ashley | Jesse Graves | Harry Denny | Thaddeus Jones | Jean Houghton