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