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.


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

Andrea Leeds
Jane McDowell Foster

Al Jolson
Edwin P. Christy

Felix Bressart
Henry Kleber

Chick Chandler
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Russell Hicks
Andrew McDowell
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Diane Fisher
Marion Foster

George P. Breakston
Ambrose

Nella Walker
Mrs. McDowell