Swanee River (1939)

Directors

Sidney Lanfield

Cast

Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, Russell Hicks

The story

The family of Stephen Foster (Ameche) insists that he accept a seven-dollar-a-week shipping clerk job in Cincinnati, but he prefers to write songs. Stephen's prospective father-in-law Andrew McDowell has no faith in Stephen, who wants to write "music from the heart of the simple people of the South." The struggling composer is content to sell "Oh! Susanna" for fifteen dollars to minstrel singer E.

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