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