The Story of Stephen C. Foster - The Great American Troubadour

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.

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Main Cast: Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, Felix Bressart, Chick Chandler, Russell Hicks, Diane Fisher, George P. Breakston, Nella Walker, Mae Marsh

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writers: John Taintor Foote, Philip Dunne

Editor: Louis R. Loeffler

Cinematographer: Bert Glennon

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