Swanee River
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.
Director Sidney Lanfield
Cast
Leona Roberts
Mrs. Foster
Charles Tannen
Morrison Foster
Lloyd Whitlock
Critic
Matthew Beard
Negro Boy
Esther Dale
Temperance Woman
James Blaine
Bartender
Ruth Clifford
Bit Role
George O'Hanlon
Ticket Taker
Tom Seidel
Bellboy
Harry Tenbrook
Jim, Saloon Waiter
Chick Chandler
Bones
Nella Walker
Mrs. McDowell
Les Clark
Specialty
Robert Emmett Keane
Drunken Agitator
James C. Morton
Bartender
Forbes Murray
Critic
Harry Strang
Boat Captain
George P. Breakston
Ambrose
Harry Depp
Dresser
Claire Du Brey
Woman in Cafe
Billy Wayne
Agitator
Hal K. Dawson
Drunken Man on Riverboat
Charles Halton
Pond
John Hamilton
Doctor
Herbert Rawlinson
Army Officer
George Magrill
Agitator
George H. Reed
Old Joe, McDowell's Coachman
Clara Blandick
Mrs. Griffin
Eleanor Hansen
Bit Role
Selmer Jackson
Army Medical Examiner
Al Jolson
Edwin P. Christy
Richard Clarke
Tom Harper
Dora Clement
Nurse
Robert Homans
Sheriff
Gladden James
Hotel Clerk
David Newell
Guest
Larry Steers
Man on Riverboat
Andrea Leeds
Jane McDowell Foster
Charles Trowbridge
Mr. Foster
Jesse Graves
Butler
Arthur Rankin
Clerk
Harry Tyler
Pianist
Harry Hayden
Erwin
Edward Earle
Master of Ceremonies
Russell Hicks
Andrew McDowell
Mae Marsh
Mrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Attendant
Edward LeSaint
Jonathan Fry, Justice of the Peace
William Newell
Bill, Stagehand
George Meeker
Henry Foster
Georgia Caine
Ann Rowan
Don Ameche
Stephen Foster
Felix Bressart
Henry Kleber