I Dream of Jeanie
BiographyComedyDramaMusic
The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.
Director
Allan Dwan
Writers
N/A
Stars
Ray Middleton, Bill Shirley, Muriel Lawrence
Release Date
June 15, 1952
Language
English
Country
United States
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🎭 Top Cast
Ray Middleton
as Edwin P. Christy
Bill Shirley
as Stephen Foster
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Muriel Lawrence
as Inez McDowell
Eileen Christy
as Jeanie McDowell
Rex Allen
as Mr. Tambo
Lynn Bari
as Mrs. McDowell
Dick Simmons
as Dunning Foster
Scott Elliott
as Milford Wilson
Andrew Tombes
as R.E. Howard
James Dobson
as Spike
🎬 Technical Specs
Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Filming Location
Republic Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production
Republic Pictures
🏷️ Keywords
racial stereotypeminstrel showblackfacestephen c. foster characterfiance fiancee relationship
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BiographyComedyDramaMusic
⭐ Featured Review
What a sorry hero this film presents
"I also watched the DVD that resurrected this forgotten film. The minstrel show scene aside (and that was not considered particularly hateful by white society in 1952), the racism isn't any more offensive than anything you might see in "Gone with the Wind." Ray Middleton is fun to watch as an egotistical hambone of a showman, but he is not the hero of this story. This film's real crime is to make the film's subject, songwriter Stephen Foster, the most unappealing, weak-willed, limp dishrag of a person ever to have a film centered around him, and there was no compensatin..."
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📖 Synopsis
The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.