Swanee River

Drama, Music, Thriller

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Sidney Lanfield

Status Released

Release Date 1939-12-29

Storyline

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.

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