Swanee River is a 1939 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 biographical films of the time, the movie was more fictional than it was factual.
Synopsis
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. 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, called Christy's Minstrels. Solvent at last, Stephen marries Jane McDowell (Leeds), and a daughter Marion is born to them. Inspired by his wife's beauty, Stephen writes "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair."
Written for performance by the New York blackface troupe Christy's Minstrels, the song was credited to the troupe's leader, E. P. Christy, on early sheet music printings. Christy had paid Foster to be credited, which Foster himself had suggested but later came to regret.
Foster had composed most of the lyrics but was struggling to name the river of the opening line, and asked his brother to suggest one. The first suggestion was "Yazoo" (in Mississippi), which despite fitting the melody perfectly, was rejected by Foster. The second suggestion was "Pee Dee" (in South Carolina), to which Foster said, "Oh pshaw! I won't have that." His brother then consulted an atlas and called out "Suwannee!" Foster said, "That's it, exactly!" Adding it to the lyrics, he purposely misspelled it as "Swanee" to fit the melody.
Part 2 Coming Soon! Oh, and I don't own this movie, it is owned AND distributed by 20th Century Fox.
published: 03 Jun 2019
CORAÇÃO DE TROVADOR (1939) - Swanee River 1939 DVDRip XviD
CORAÇÃO DE TROVADOR (1939) - Swanee River 1939 DVDRip XviD
published: 25 Oct 2022
Swanee River 1939 #2
Boom, there's the second part of Al Jolson's Swanee River movie. Hope you enjoy!
published: 03 Feb 2020
Al Jolson – Swanee [HD]
An excerpt from a Hollywood film Rhapsody In Blue (1945)
Artist: Al Jolson
Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Irving Caesar
Play: Sinbad
Orchestral Arrangement: Ray Heindorf
Sound: David Forrest and Stanley Jones
published: 06 Apr 2021
Swanee River performed by Johnny O'Keefe/Delltones from the lost film 'Rock'n'Roll' (1959)
This is our first clip uploaded to Youtube on January 26, 2021. The film has since been restored and will screen throughout Australia in 2023. Visit https://rocknroll1959.com for screening dates and locations.The complete soundtrack is also available on our website.
Taken from the lost (now found!) 1959 documentary feature film entitled 'Rock'n'Roll', this is Johnny O'Keefe performing 'Swanee River'. It features The Delltones doing back up vocals and his band the DJ'S. The quality of the sound and vision on the film far surpasses any pre-existing footage of live Rock'n'Roll performances from the 1950s.
Rock'n'Roll, directed by the pioneering Australian director Lee Robinson, and commissioned by the legendary promoter Lee Gordon, was the only 35mm feature-length film of a live Rock'n'Rol...
published: 26 Jan 2021
Bing Sings "Swanee River"
Bing Crosby takes a break from Rodgers & Hart and sings some Stephen Foster in this clip from Mississippi (1935). The song is "Swanee River," or "Old Folks at Home."
published: 27 Sep 2011
ハタリ! (Hatari! - Swanee River)
1962 Hatari! - Swanee River
published: 10 Dec 2011
Old Folks at home (Way Down Upon Swanee River) - Stephen Foster 1851 - Al Jolson
From the movie Swanee River, biography of the american composer Stephen Foster, Fox production 1940.
Last appearance of Al Jolson (creator of Swanee by George Gershwin) on film.
published: 19 Feb 2014
The Honeymooners - Suwanee River
From The Honeymooners $99,000 Question.
published: 19 Dec 2012
Swanee River - Al Jolson - Dennis Morgan - Lux Radio Theater
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Swanee River is a 1939 American film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart. It is a 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 biographical films of the time, the film was more fictional than it was factual. (Wikipedia)
Originally Broadcast 4/2/1945
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An excerpt from a Hollywood film Rhapsody In Blue (1945)
Artist: Al Jolson
Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Irving Caesar
Play: Sinbad
Orchestral Arrangement: Ra...
An excerpt from a Hollywood film Rhapsody In Blue (1945)
Artist: Al Jolson
Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Irving Caesar
Play: Sinbad
Orchestral Arrangement: Ray Heindorf
Sound: David Forrest and Stanley Jones
An excerpt from a Hollywood film Rhapsody In Blue (1945)
Artist: Al Jolson
Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Irving Caesar
Play: Sinbad
Orchestral Arrangement: Ray Heindorf
Sound: David Forrest and Stanley Jones
This is our first clip uploaded to Youtube on January 26, 2021. The film has since been restored and will screen throughout Australia in 2023. Visit https://roc...
This is our first clip uploaded to Youtube on January 26, 2021. The film has since been restored and will screen throughout Australia in 2023. Visit https://rocknroll1959.com for screening dates and locations.The complete soundtrack is also available on our website.
Taken from the lost (now found!) 1959 documentary feature film entitled 'Rock'n'Roll', this is Johnny O'Keefe performing 'Swanee River'. It features The Delltones doing back up vocals and his band the DJ'S. The quality of the sound and vision on the film far surpasses any pre-existing footage of live Rock'n'Roll performances from the 1950s.
Rock'n'Roll, directed by the pioneering Australian director Lee Robinson, and commissioned by the legendary promoter Lee Gordon, was the only 35mm feature-length film of a live Rock'n'Roll concert ever made in the 1950s. Moreover, it is arguably the only piece of 35mm Rock'n'Roll live footage from the 1950s in existence, since The Pied Piper of Cleveland (the only other 35mm live film shot in this decade) is considered to be lost by many researchers.
I discovered the sole surviving copy of the film in March 2020 in Melbourne, Victoria. It had been lost for over 50 years.
Rock'n'Roll screened at ACMI on December 6, 2021 for the first time in over 50 years.
This is our first clip uploaded to Youtube on January 26, 2021. The film has since been restored and will screen throughout Australia in 2023. Visit https://rocknroll1959.com for screening dates and locations.The complete soundtrack is also available on our website.
Taken from the lost (now found!) 1959 documentary feature film entitled 'Rock'n'Roll', this is Johnny O'Keefe performing 'Swanee River'. It features The Delltones doing back up vocals and his band the DJ'S. The quality of the sound and vision on the film far surpasses any pre-existing footage of live Rock'n'Roll performances from the 1950s.
Rock'n'Roll, directed by the pioneering Australian director Lee Robinson, and commissioned by the legendary promoter Lee Gordon, was the only 35mm feature-length film of a live Rock'n'Roll concert ever made in the 1950s. Moreover, it is arguably the only piece of 35mm Rock'n'Roll live footage from the 1950s in existence, since The Pied Piper of Cleveland (the only other 35mm live film shot in this decade) is considered to be lost by many researchers.
I discovered the sole surviving copy of the film in March 2020 in Melbourne, Victoria. It had been lost for over 50 years.
Rock'n'Roll screened at ACMI on December 6, 2021 for the first time in over 50 years.
Bing Crosby takes a break from Rodgers & Hart and sings some Stephen Foster in this clip from Mississippi (1935). The song is "Swanee River," or "Old Folks at H...
Bing Crosby takes a break from Rodgers & Hart and sings some Stephen Foster in this clip from Mississippi (1935). The song is "Swanee River," or "Old Folks at Home."
Bing Crosby takes a break from Rodgers & Hart and sings some Stephen Foster in this clip from Mississippi (1935). The song is "Swanee River," or "Old Folks at Home."
From the movie Swanee River, biography of the american composer Stephen Foster, Fox production 1940.
Last appearance of Al Jolson (creator of Swanee by George G...
From the movie Swanee River, biography of the american composer Stephen Foster, Fox production 1940.
Last appearance of Al Jolson (creator of Swanee by George Gershwin) on film.
From the movie Swanee River, biography of the american composer Stephen Foster, Fox production 1940.
Last appearance of Al Jolson (creator of Swanee by George Gershwin) on film.
The family of Stephen Foster insists that he accept a seven-dollar-a-week shipping clerk job in Cincinnati, but he prefers to write songs.
Can't wait for the ...
The family of Stephen Foster insists that he accept a seven-dollar-a-week shipping clerk job in Cincinnati, but he prefers to write songs.
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Swanee River is a 1939 American film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart. It is a 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 biographical films of the time, the film was more fictional than it was factual. (Wikipedia)
Originally Broadcast 4/2/1945
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Swanee River is a 1939 American film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart. It is a 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 biographical films of the time, the film was more fictional than it was factual. (Wikipedia)
Originally Broadcast 4/2/1945
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An excerpt from a Hollywood film Rhapsody In Blue (1945)
Artist: Al Jolson
Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics: Irving Caesar
Play: Sinbad
Orchestral Arrangement: Ray Heindorf
Sound: David Forrest and Stanley Jones
This is our first clip uploaded to Youtube on January 26, 2021. The film has since been restored and will screen throughout Australia in 2023. Visit https://rocknroll1959.com for screening dates and locations.The complete soundtrack is also available on our website.
Taken from the lost (now found!) 1959 documentary feature film entitled 'Rock'n'Roll', this is Johnny O'Keefe performing 'Swanee River'. It features The Delltones doing back up vocals and his band the DJ'S. The quality of the sound and vision on the film far surpasses any pre-existing footage of live Rock'n'Roll performances from the 1950s.
Rock'n'Roll, directed by the pioneering Australian director Lee Robinson, and commissioned by the legendary promoter Lee Gordon, was the only 35mm feature-length film of a live Rock'n'Roll concert ever made in the 1950s. Moreover, it is arguably the only piece of 35mm Rock'n'Roll live footage from the 1950s in existence, since The Pied Piper of Cleveland (the only other 35mm live film shot in this decade) is considered to be lost by many researchers.
I discovered the sole surviving copy of the film in March 2020 in Melbourne, Victoria. It had been lost for over 50 years.
Rock'n'Roll screened at ACMI on December 6, 2021 for the first time in over 50 years.
Bing Crosby takes a break from Rodgers & Hart and sings some Stephen Foster in this clip from Mississippi (1935). The song is "Swanee River," or "Old Folks at Home."
From the movie Swanee River, biography of the american composer Stephen Foster, Fox production 1940.
Last appearance of Al Jolson (creator of Swanee by George Gershwin) on film.
The family of Stephen Foster insists that he accept a seven-dollar-a-week shipping clerk job in Cincinnati, but he prefers to write songs.
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Swanee River is a 1939 American film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart. It is a 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 biographical films of the time, the film was more fictional than it was factual. (Wikipedia)
Originally Broadcast 4/2/1945
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Way down upon the Swanee River, Far, far away That's where my heart is turning ever That's where the old folks stay Way down upon the Swanee River, Far, far away That's where my heart is turning ever