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