Swanee River
The Story of Stephen C. Foster - The Great American Troubadour
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- Drama
- Thriller
- Music
Overview
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.
Keywords
- biography
- songwriter
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 29, 1939
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
- Cast
- Leona Roberts,Ruth Clifford,Harry Denny,George P. Breakston,John Hamilton,Tommy Hicks,Robert Emmett Keane,Cecil Weston,Lloyd Whitlock,Gladden Jamesand 59 more
- Director
- Sidney Lanfield
- Producer
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Cinematography
- Bert Glennon
- Music
- Louis Silvers
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0031996