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Swanee River (Motion picture : 1939)

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  • ""Stephen Foster's family 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.P. Christy and allows Christy to take credit as its writer. Soon, the song is sweeping the country, and Stephen follows it with De Camptown races and goes on tour with Christy's troup. Solvent at last, Stephen marries Jane McDowell, and a daughter Marion is born to them. Inspired by his wife's beauty, Stephen writes Jeanie with the light brown hair. However, Stephen's prosperity ends when his classical music fails and the advent of the Civil War brands his music as traitorous. When he turns to drinking, Jane leaves him, but two years later returns to encourage him to write The old folks at home. Stephen never hears his composition performed, however, for on the night that Christy presents the song to a New York audience, the composer dies of a heart attack"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."
  • "The fictionalized biography of 19th-century American composer Stephen Foster."

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  • "Biographical films"
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  • "Drama"

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  • "Swanee River (Motion picture : 1939)"
  • "Swanee River"

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