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