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Swanee River (1939)

Swanee River (1939)

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The Story of Stephen C. Foster - The Great American Troubadour

Release Date: 1939, December 29
Directors: Sidney Lanfield
Countries: United States of America
Production: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Russell Hicks, Matthew Beard, Leona Roberts, George Meeker, David Newell, Tom Seidel, Harry Strang, Clara Blandick, George O'Hanlon, Harry Denny, Charles Halton, Bert Moorhouse

Overview:

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.

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biography songwriter