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Swanee River (1939)

ALL 12/29/1939 (en) Drama, Music, Thriller 84 Min
  • Release
    12/29/1939
  • Production
    20th Century Fox
  • Rotten tomato
    65%
  • Original title
    Swanee River
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Sidney Lanfield

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Darryl F. Zanuck

    Producer



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  1. Don Ameche

    Stephen Foster

  2. Andrea Leeds

    Jane McDowell Foster

  3. Al Jolson

    Edwin P. Christy

  4. Felix Bressart

    Henry Kleber

  5. Chick Chandler

    Bones

  6. Russell Hicks

    Andrew McDowell

  7. Diane Fisher

    Marion Foster

  8. George P. Breakston

    Ambrose

  9. Nella Walker

    Mrs. McDowell

  10. Mae Marsh

    Mrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)

  11. George H. Reed

    Old Joe, McDowell's Coachman

  12. Richard Clarke

    Tom Harper

  13. Al Herman

    Tambo

  14. Charles Trowbridge

    Mr. Foster

  15. George Meeker

    Henry Foster

  16. Leona Roberts

    Mrs. Foster

  17. Charles Tannen

    Morrison Foster

  18. Clara Blandick

    Mrs. Griffin

  19. Harry Hayden

    Erwin

  20. Esther Dale

    Temperance Woman

  21. Herbert Ashley

    Detective

  22. Matthew Beard

    Negro Boy

  23. Georgie Billings

    Office Boy

  24. James Blaine

    Bartender

  25. Georgia Caine

    Ann Rowan

  26. Les Clark

    Specialty

  27. Dora Clement

    Nurse

  28. Ruth Clifford

    Bit Role

  29. Hal K. Dawson

    Drunken Man on Riverboat

  30. Dorothy Dearing

    Bit Role

  31. Harry Denny

    Guest

  32. Harry Depp

    Dresser

  33. Claire Du Brey

    Woman in Cafe

  34. Edward Earle

    Master of Ceremonies

  35. Jesse Graves

    Butler

  36. Kay Griffith

    Bit Role

  37. Charles Halton

    Pond

  38. John Hamilton

    Doctor

  39. Eleanor Hansen

    Bit Role

  40. Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian

    Agitator

  41. Tommy Hicks

    Fat Boy

  42. Robert Homans

    Sheriff

  43. Jean Houghton

    Guest

  44. Selmer Jackson

    Army Medical Examiner

  45. Gladden James

    Hotel Clerk

  46. Thaddeus Jones

    Dan

  47. Robert Emmett Keane

    Drunken Agitator

  48. Wright Kramer

    Doctor

  49. Edward LeSaint

    Jonathan Fry, Justice of the Peace

  50. George Magrill

    Agitator

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 69 , Crews : 10

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Swanee River (1939) 84 Min

ALL 12/29/1939 (en)
Drama, Music, Thriller
  • Release 12/29/1939
  • Production
    20th Century Fox
  • Original title Swanee River
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Sidney Lanfield

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Louis R. Loeffler

    Editor

  4. Darryl F. Zanuck

    Producer



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