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.
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
- Diane Fisher as Marion Foster
- George P. Breakston as Ambrose
- Nella Walker as Mrs. McDowell
- Mae Marsh as Mrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)