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.
Don Ameche
as Stephen Foster
Andrea Leeds
as Jane McDowell Foster
Al Jolson
as Edwin P. Christy
Felix Bressart
as Henry Kleber
Chick Chandler
as Bones
Russell Hicks
as Andrew McDowell
Diane Fisher
as Marion Foster
George P. Breakston
as Ambrose
Nella Walker
as Mrs. McDowell
Mae Marsh
as Mrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)
George H. Reed
as Old Joe, McDowell's Coachman
Richard Clarke
as Tom Harper
