The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.
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Edwin P. Christy
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Muriel Lawrence | ... |
Inez McDowell
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Jeanie McDowell
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Mr. Tambo
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Mrs. McDowell
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Dunning Foster
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Scott Elliott | ... |
Milford Wilson
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Andrew Tombes | ... |
R.E. Howard
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James Dobson | ... |
Spike
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Mr. Horker
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Glen Turnbull | ... |
Glenn Turnbull /
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| Louise Beavers | ... |
Mammy
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Doctor
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| Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer | ... |
Freddie
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The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.
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racial stereotype | title based on song | unrequited love | sheet music | riverboat |Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
15 June 1952 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Canzone del Mississipi See more »Filming Locations:
Republic Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USABox Office
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$515,134 (estimated)Company Credits
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1.37 : 1
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First Co-Worker: Let's see where it says you wrote it!
Stephen Foster: Well, I guess it doesn't say.
Second Co-Worker: Did you get much for it?
Stephen Foster: Oh, he didn't pay me anything.
First Co-Worker: Did you even get any royalties?
Stephen Foster: Listen, he's doing me a big favor just to print it - didn't charge me a cent.
Second Co-Worker: Boy, how 'bout that minstrel man, Christy? Didn't he pay ya?
Stephen Foster: Certainly not. I'm proud to have him sing it.
First Co-Worker: Gee, it looks like you oughta get a little something just for thinkin' it up!
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Written by Stephen Foster
Performed by Ray Middleton and Company
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[Stephen shows the sheet music from his first song to two of his friends]First Co-Worker: Let's see where it says you wrote it!
Stephen Foster: Well, I guess it doesn't say.
Second Co-Worker: Did you get much for it?
Stephen Foster: Oh, he didn't pay me anything.
First Co-Worker: Did you even get any royalties?
Stephen Foster: Listen, he's doing me a big favor just to print it - didn't charge me a cent.
Second Co-Worker: Boy, how 'bout that minstrel man, Christy? Didn't he pay ya?
Stephen Foster: Certainly not. I'm proud to have him sing it.
First Co-Worker: Gee, it looks like you oughta get a little something just for thinkin' it up!
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Ring de BanjoWritten by Stephen Foster
Performed by Ray Middleton and Company
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Just picked up this film for a buck at National Wholesale Liquidators, and after watching it, I feel like I got ripped-off.
I don't know that I've seen a worse film than this. Honestly. And I would never write a negative review of a film had I not such enormous respect for the subject matter, that is, Stephen Foster and his music.
First, what is it? It's a musical biography? Yeah, lot's of tunes by Foster then interspersed here and there are these pseudo-Broadway-Jerome Kern-type numbers that reek more than the Mississippi delta. I mean, somebody got PAID to write this drivel? Secondly, the REAL story of Foster is a fascinating one. Why not even come CLOSE to it? Thirdly, what did they have on the great Ray Middleton to get him to do this film? Pictures of him with small boys?? With communists? What a waste of a great talent.
So, friends of Foster, and the truth, and good entertainment, be afraid... be very, very, afraid.