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