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Swanee River is a american film of genre Drama directed by Sidney Lanfield released in USA on 29 december 1939 with Don Ameche

Swanee River (1939)

Swanee River
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Released in USA 29 december 1939
Length 1h24
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Biography,    Musical
Rating62% 3.142963.142963.142963.142963.14296

Swanee River is a 1939 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 biographical films of the time, the movie was more fictional than it was factual.

Synopsis

The family of Stephen Foster (Ameche) insists that he accept a seven-dollar-a-week shipping clerk job in Cincinnati, but he prefers to write songs. Stephen's prospective father-in-law Andrew McDowell has no faith in Stephen, who wants to write "music from the heart of the simple people of the South." The struggling composer is content to sell "Oh! Susanna" for fifteen dollars to minstrel singer E. P. Christy and allows Christy to take credit as its writer.

Actors

Don Ameche

(Stephen Foster)Andrea Leeds

(Jane McDowell Foster)Al Jolson

(Edwin P. Christy)Felix Bressart

(Henry Kleber)Chick Chandler

(Bones)
And :
Russell Hicks
Nella Walker
George Breakston
Edward LeSaint
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