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Swanee River

1939, Movie, NR, 84 mins

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Ameche had already played the man who gave us the telephone and now he was to have an even more difficult task as one of America's premier songwriters, Stephen Foster. The problem was that Foster was a drunk, treated his wife and child badly, never provided for his family, and died at a young age (37) in the charity ward at Bellevue Hospital in New York. He'd earned a good deal of royalty money from 1849 through 1860 but drank it all away and died a pauper. The last song he ... read more leave a comment
Year: 1939
Rated NR

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Cast
Don Ameche: Stephen Foster
Andrea Leeds: Jane
Al Jolson: E.P. Christy
Felix Bressart: Henry Kleber
Chick Chandler: Bones
Russell Hicks: Andrew McDowell

 

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