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