Swanee River 1939

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

Directed by Sidney Lanfield

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.