1939-12-29 6.7/10
Overview
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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
Writer : Philip Dunne, John Taintor Foote
Cast
Don Ameche
Andrea Leeds
Al Jolson
Felix Bressart
Chick Chandler
Russell Hicks