“SWANEE RIVER.”
STI RRING TECHNICOLOUR FILM OF IMMORTAL MELODIST.
“Swanee River,” the story of Stephen C. Foster, the great American troubadour, brings back the colourful, romantic days of minstrels and river boats, in a stirring drama of the man who wrote the songs that have beeiT heard all over the world. Out of the bitter and sweet of a great love—the most beautiful thing in his stormy, exciting life—Foster wrote these inatonjess' songs. Minstrels strutted them, river boats tooted them, gay ladies hummed them and lovers sang them soft and low. “The Old Folks at Home' ’ (Swanee River), “Oh! Susanna!” “Old Black Joe,” “My Old Kentucky Home ’ and countless others—the songs we all grew up. to—and took to our hearts forever! Now those stirring days are brought to a new. and pulsating life with Don Ameehe as the handsome composer, Andrea Leeds and A 1 Jolson in the leading 'roles. Filmed in technicolour, the lovely old settings of the story are endowed with striking realism and rare charm.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 124, 7 March 1941, Page 3
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