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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.
Directed by
Sidney Lanfield
Don Ameche
Stephen Foster
Mae Marsh
Mrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Man on Riverboat
Richard Clarke
Tom Harper
David Newell
Guest
Harry Tenbrook
Jim, Saloon Waiter
Jesse Graves
Butler
Clara Blandick
Mrs. Griffin
Felix Bressart
Henry Kleber
George P. Breakston
Ambrose
Forbes Murray
Critic
George O'Hanlon
Ticket Taker
Claire Du Brey
Woman in Cafe
Harry Strang
Boat Captain
Russell Hicks
Andrew McDowell
Edward LeSaint
Jonathan Fry, Justice of the Peace
Edward Earle
Master of Ceremonies
Esther Dale
Temperance Woman
Chick Chandler
Bones
Matthew Beard
Negro Boy
John Hamilton
Doctor
George Magrill
Agitator
Harry Depp
Dresser
Charles Halton
Pond
Billy Wayne
Agitator
Nella Walker
Mrs. McDowell
Selmer Jackson
Army Medical Examiner
Harry Tyler
Pianist
Bert Moorhouse
Attendant
James Blaine
Bartender
Al Jolson
Edwin P. Christy
Robert Homans
Sheriff
Charles Trowbridge
Mr. Foster
George Meeker
Henry Foster
William Newell
Bill, Stagehand
Harry Hayden
Erwin
Ruth Clifford
Bit Role
Arthur Rankin
Clerk
Hal K. Dawson
Drunken Man on Riverboat
Leona Roberts
Mrs. Foster
Charles Tannen
Morrison Foster
Tom Seidel
Bellboy
James C. Morton
Bartender
Herbert Rawlinson
Army Officer
Robert Emmett Keane
Drunken Agitator
Lloyd Whitlock
Critic
Georgia Caine
Ann Rowan
Gladden James
Hotel Clerk
Dora Clement
Nurse
Andrea Leeds
Jane McDowell Foster
George H. Reed
Old Joe, McDowell's Coachman
Eleanor Hansen
Bit Role
Diane Fisher
Marion Foster
Al Herman
Tambo
Herbert Ashley
Detective
Georgie Billings
Office Boy
Dorothy Dearing
Bit Role
Harry Denny
Guest
Kay Griffith
Bit Role
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian
Agitator
Tommy Hicks
Fat Boy
Jean Houghton
Guest
Thaddeus Jones
Dan
Wright Kramer
Doctor
Bruce Mitchell
Jailer
Daisy Lee Mothershed
Maid
Bruce Warren
Orchestra Leader
Cecil Weston
Landlady

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