Swanee River

Name: Swanee River
Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller
Released: 1939-12-29
Duration: 1 h 24 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, Felix Bressart, Chick Chandler

December 29, 1939
Directed by
Sidney Lanfield

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.