Swanee River

IMDb link: 0031996
IMDb rating: 6.1 (251 votes)
Genres: Drama, Biography, Musical
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Andrea Leeds, Don Ameche, Al Jolson, Felix Bressart and others

Release date: 5 Jan 1940
Release year: 1939
Runtime: 84 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: blackface, stephen c. foster character, singer, singing, song, 20th century fox musical

Plot:

More fictional than factual biography of Stephen Foster. Songwriter from Pittsburgh falls in love with the South, marries a Southern gal (Leeds), then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out.

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