Released
Swanee River
December 29 1939 (about 85 years ago)Rating
65
Based on
2 reviews
The Story of Stephen C. Foster - The Great American Troubadour
- Director: Sidney Lanfield
- Writers: John Taintor Foote, Philip Dunne
- Genres: Drama, Music, Thriller
- Runtime: 1 h 24 m
- Country: United States of America
- Company: 20th Century Fox
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.
