Swanee River

Swanee River

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.

Cast for Swanee River...

Don Ameche
Stephen Foster
Andrea Leeds
Jane McDowell Foster
Al Jolson
Edwin P. Christy
Felix Bressart
Henry Kleber
Russell Hicks
Andrew McDowell
Diane Fisher
Marion Foster
Nella Walker
Mrs. McDowell
Mae Marsh
Mrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)
George H. Reed
Old Joe, McDowell's Coachman
Richard Clarke
Tom Harper
George Meeker
Henry Foster
Leona Roberts
Mrs. Foster
Charles Tannen
Morrison Foster
Clara Blandick
Mrs. Griffin
Esther Dale
Temperance Woman
Matthew Beard
Negro Boy
James Blaine
Bartender
Georgia Caine
Ann Rowan
Les Clark
Specialty
Hal K. Dawson
Drunken Man on Riverboat
Harry Depp
Dresser
Claire Du Brey
Woman in Cafe
Edward Earle
Master of Ceremonies
Kay Griffith
Bit Role
Selmer Jackson
Army Medical Examiner
Gladden James
Hotel Clerk
Robert Emmett Keane
Drunken Agitator
Edward LeSaint
Jonathan Fry, Justice of the Peace
William Newell
Bill, Stagehand
George O'Hanlon
Ticket Taker
Herbert Rawlinson
Army Officer
Tom Seidel
Bellboy
Larry Steers
Man on Riverboat
Harry Strang
Boat Captain
Harry Tenbrook
Jim, Saloon Waiter
Bruce Warren
Orchestra Leader
Billy Wayne
Agitator
Cecil Weston
Landlady