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Swanee River is a 1940 biopic about the American songwriter Stephen Foster.Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than f...

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Comment by Galen Wilkes on May 24, 2014 at 5:42pm

There are a lot of Hollywood movies with minstrel and blackface scenes in them.  I have some myself.  Not all the details are accurate but I find the productions fascinating nonetheless.  It is strictly taboo now,  but the actors in these films grew up with such entertainment.  Films were the last to capture such performances by many who were in minstrelsy.

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