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