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