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.
- Year: 1939
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Keyword: biography, songwriter
- Director: Sidney Lanfield
- Cast: Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, Felix Bressart, Chick Chandler, Russell Hicks