What was the name of the 1939 film based on a biography of a famous nineteenth century songwriter known as "the father of American music"?
Swanee River
Swanee River (film)
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.
Stephen Foster
Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American songwriter known primarily for his parlor and minstrel music.
 Foster wrote over 200 songs; among his best-known are "Oh!
 Susanna", "Hard Times Come Again No More", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home" ("Suwanee River"), "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer".
 Many of his compositions remain popular more than 150 years after he wrote them.
 His compositions are thought to be autobiographical.
 He has been identified as "the most famous songwriter of the nineteenth century" and may be the most recognizable American composer in other countries.
 His compositions are sometimes referred to as "childhood songs" because they have been included in the music curriculum of early education.
 Most of his handwritten music manuscripts are lost, but copies printed by publishers of his day can be found in various collections.
Martino Frontini
Martino Frontini (Catania, 1827 – Catania, 1909) was an Italian composer and writer who worked with many Catanian musicians in the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the father, and first teacher, of composer Francesco Paolo Frontini.
 He founded the town band, which he led for thirty years; he also directed the band of the regional hospital during his career.
 He composed numerous works, becoming especially known for his waltzes; in larger forms, he wrote a three-act lyric opera ("Marco Bozzari"), an ""azione coreografica"" ("Fatima") and a fantastic operetta ("La Rivolta dell'Olimpo").
 As a writer he published a biography of Pietro Antonio Coppola in 1876.
 He died in Catania in 1909. Crossroads Tavern (Crossroads, Virginia)
Crossroads Tavern, also known as Crossroads Inn, is a historic inn and tavern located at North Garden, Albemarle County, Virginia.
 It was built about 1820.
 In the mid nineteenth century, Clifton G. Sutherland, son of Joseph Sutherland, owned and ran the tavern which was located on the Staunton and James River Turnpike.
 It served as a tavern and overnight lodging for farmers and travelers using the turnpike.
 In 1889, Daniel B. Landes bought the land at the public auction of the estate of Clifton Sutherland.
 The property continued to be conveyed to various owners over the years.
 The Crossroads Tavern is an early nineteenth century two- to three-story, three bay, double pile brick structure.
 The building sits on top of a brick and stone foundation, is roofed with tin and has pairs of interior brick chimneys on either gable end.
 The brick is laid in five course American bond with Flemish variant.
 Windows on the basement level at the rear of the house (north side) are barred; other basement windows are nine-over-six sash.
 Put-holes are found at the west end of the building, formerly providing sockets for scaffold boards should repairs be necessary.
 The front facade is dominated by a porch on the second story extending the entire width of the south and east facades.
 It is supported by five rounded brick columns and the tin roof above is supported by simple square wooden pillars connected by horizontal rails.
 Doors of the front of the basement level open respectively into kitchen and dining room and into a spirits cellar with its original barrel racks as well as a laundry fireplace.
 Floors on this level were originally dirt but dining room and kitchen floors have been cemented.
 The main entrance door on the second level, with its multi-panes lights, opens onto a central stair hall with tow main rooms on either side.
 This stair hall has an ascending stair at its front and both ascending and descending stairs toward its center.
 Formerly the ascending stairs led to upstairs areas which did not connect.
 There is no ridge pole in the three attic rooms.
 The interiors of windows and doors on the main entrance side have extremely long wooden lintels.
 With few exceptions, the interior woodwork is original, including floors, chair rails, mantels and built in cupboards.
 Also on the property is a two story contributing summer kitchen, brick up to the second story and frame above, and with an exterior brick chimney at the rear gable with fireplaces on both floors.
 It is operated as a bed and breakfast. Marian Wilson Kimber
Marian Wilson Kimber is an American musicologist and a Professor of Music at the University of Iowa.
 Having completed a dissertation on the autograph scores of Felix Mendelssohn's piano concertos, Wilson Kimber received her PhD in Musicology from Florida State University in 1993.
 Her work covers topics of gender, biography, performance, and bibliography in the long nineteenth century.
 Specifically, she has published on Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Jane Austen, spoken-word recitation to musical accompaniment, and female performance genres.
 Wilson Kimber's recent book "The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word" (University of Illinois Press, 2017), was a recipient of grants from both the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music. Charles O'Flynn
Charles O'Flynn was an American twentieth century songwriter, who was active during the Tin Pan Alley era; specifically from 1921 to 1947.
 One of O'Flynn's most famous lyrics was for the popular song "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile", which later appeared in Robert Zemeckis's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". Andrew Brown Donaldson
Andrew Brown Donaldson was a British artist mainly active in the second half of the nineteenth century.
 He was born in 1840, although some sources say 1838, and was the second son of a solicitor named William Leverton Donaldson and his wife, Margaret Tennent.
 As their name implies, the Donaldsons were of Scottish descent and they were perhaps best known in the nineteenth century for their prominence in the field of architecture; William Leverton Donaldson's father, James Donaldson (1756-1844), and elder brother, Thomas Leverton Donaldson (1795-1885), were both renowned architects.
 Margaret Tennent was the daughter of John Tennent of Glasgow and his wife, Margaret Brown, daughter of Andrew Brown, after whom Andrew Brown Donaldson was evidently named.
 Inexplicably, Andrew Brown Donaldson is commonly referred to in the art world as Andrew Benjamin Donaldson. Frontier Marshal (1939 film)
Frontier Marshal is a 1939 western film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Randolph Scott as Wyatt Earp.
 The movie is the second film produced by Sol M. Wurtzel based on Stuart N. Lake's biography of Earp, "" (later found to be largely fictionalized).
 An earlier version was Wurtzel's "Frontier Marshal", filmed in 1934.
 A later version of the story was filmed by John Ford in 1946, "My Darling Clementine", which included whole scenes reshot from the 1939 film. Wicked (musical)
Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman.
 It is based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel "", an alternative telling of the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" and L. Frank Baum's classic 1900 story, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".
 The musical is told from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz; its plot begins before and continues after Dorothy's arrival in Oz from Kansas, and it includes several references to the 1939 film and Baum's novel.
 "Wicked" tells the story of two unlikely friends, Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) and Galinda (whose name later changes to Glinda the Good Witch), who struggle through opposing personalities and viewpoints, rivalry over the same love-interest, reactions to the Wizard's corrupt government and, ultimately, Elphaba's public fall from grace. Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (9 September 1855 – 9 January 1927) was a British-born philosopher who wrote works about political philosophy and natural science; he is described by Michael D. Biddiss, a contributor to the Oxford "Dictionary of National Biography" as a "racialist writer".
 He was also the son-in-law of German composer Richard Wagner, as Chamberlain married the composer's daughter, Eva von Bülow in December, 1908 - twenty-five years after the composer's death (Cosima Wagner was still married to Hans von Bülow when Eva was born – her real father was Wagner).
 Chamberlain's best known book is the two-volume "Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts" ("The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century"), published in 1899, which became widely read in the "völkisch" pan-Germanic movements of the early 20th century, and was later an influence for the antisemitism of Nazi racial policy.
 Indeed, Chamberlain has been referred to as "Hitler's John the Baptist".