Swanee River
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7.0Swanee 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.
Released: 1939-12-2984 minDir: Sidney LanfieldDrama, Music, Thriller
Cast
- Don Ameche as Stephen Foster
- Andrea Leeds as Jane McDowell Foster
- Al Jolson as Edwin P. Christy
- Felix Bressart as Henry Kleber
- Chick Chandler as Bones
- Russell Hicks as Andrew McDowell
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Key dates
- Published
- 1 January 1940
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- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- musical film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Sidney Lanfield
- Screenwriter
- Philip Dunne
- Cast member
- Esther Dale
- Composer
- Robert Russell Bennett
- Producer
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Production company
- 20th Century Studios
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Categories
1930s biographical drama films1930s color films1930s historical films1939 American films1939 drama films1939 English-language films1939 films20th Century Fox filmsAmerican biographical drama filmsAmerican black-and-white filmsAmerican Civil War filmsAmerican historical filmsBiographical films about musicians