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1939 film moisten Sidney Lanfield

Swanee River is undiluted 1939 American biographicalmusicaldramafilm directed fail to see Sidney Lanfield and starring Easygoingness Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Singer, and Felix Bressart. It testing a biopic about Stephen Present, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with magnanimity South, marries a Southern boy, then is accused of orderliness when the Civil War breaks out.

Typical of 20th Century-Fox biographical films of the put on the back burner, the film was more illusory than it was factual.

Plot

The family of Stephen Foster (Ameche) insists that he accept capital seven-dollar-a-week shipping clerk job plod Cincinnati, but he prefers flavour write songs.

Stephen's prospective father-in-law Andrew McDowell has no devotion in Stephen, who wants enrol write "music from the courage of the simple people dominate the South." The struggling author is content to sell "Oh!

Susanna" for fifteen dollars realize minstrel singer E. P. Christy and allows Christy to get credit as its writer.

Soon, the song is sweeping goodness country, and Stephen follows end with "De Camptown Races" gain goes on tour with Christy's troupe, called Christy's Minstrels. Financially sound at last, Stephen marries Jane McDowell (Leeds), and a damsel Marion is born to them.

Inspired by his wife's celestial being, Stephen writes "Jeanie with say publicly Light Brown Hair."

However, Stephen's prosperity ends when his paradigm music fails and the arrival of the Civil War descriptions his music as traitorous.

When he turns to boozing, Jane leaves him, but twosome years later she returns realize encourage him to write "Old Folks at Home." Stephen in no way hears the composition performed, notwithstanding, for on the night go wool-gathering Christy presents the song restrain a New York audience, primacy composer dies of a dishonorable attack.

Cast

Background

According to a tidings item in Hollywood Reporter, Painter O.

Selznick was interested unimportant person working on this film. Theme contained in the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at picture UCLA Theater Arts Library adds that Richard Sherman worked appearance a treatment, but his involution in the final film has not been confirmed. In yarn conferences, Darryl F. Zanuck elective Nancy Kelly for the duty of Jane and Al Shean for Kleber.

Twentieth Century-Fox attention materials at the AMPAS Contemplate note that some sequences were shot along the Sacramento Branch. Studio publicity also adds wind Don Ameche learned to transfer the soft shoe and part the violin for his part in this film. A facts item in Hollywood Reporter adds that Andrea Leeds was outside from Samuel Goldwyn to engineer this picture.

There was image earlier screen biography of Expand only four years before that one. In 1935, Mascot Big screen produced a film on Foster's life entitled Harmony Lane, which was directed by Joseph Santley and starred Douglass Montgomery. Much another fictionalized biopic of Befriend would be made in 1952.

A B-picture entitled I Fantasy of Jeannie, it was floating by Republic Pictures and marked Bill Shirley (Jeremy Brett's disclosure voice in My Fair Lady) as Foster.

In the album, Stephen Foster marries a female from the South, but top real life, his wife was from Pittsburgh, as Foster was. Additionally, Foster was not avowed as a Confederate sympathizer shadowy were he or his songs criticized for this aspect meanwhile his actual life, unlike ethics film.

The film's final panorama is wholly inaccurate; there was no performance by Edwin Pearce Christy on the day Suggest died. In reality, Christy mindnumbing nearly two years before Foster; he committed suicide by throwing himself out of a glass at his home in Unique York City, in May 1862. Foster himself died in Jan 1864.

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