The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

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  • Genre: Drama, History
  • Release Date: 1939-04-04
  • User Rating: 6/10 from 17 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 38min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: 20th Century Fox
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Irving Cummings
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From 17 Ratings
7.0

Summary

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.

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  • Don Ameche

    as Alexander Graham Bell

  • Loretta Young

    as Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

  • Henry Fonda

    as Thomas Watson

  • Charles Coburn

    as Gardner Hubbard

  • Gene Lockhart

    as Thomas Sanders

  • Spring Byington

    as Mrs. Hubbard

  • Sally Blane

    as Gertrude Hubbard

  • Polly Ann Young

    as Grace Hubbard

  • Georgiana Young

    as Berta Hubbard

  • Bobs Watson

    as George Sanders

  • Russell Hicks

    as Mr. Barrows

  • Paul Stanton

    as Chauncey Smith

  • Jonathan Hale

    as President of Western Union

  • Harry Davenport

    as Judge Rider

  • Beryl Mercer

    as Queen Victoria

  • Elizabeth Patterson

    as Mrs. MacGregor

  • Charles Trowbridge

    as George Pollard

  • Jan Duggan

    as Mrs. Winthrop

  • Claire Du Brey

    as Landlady

  • Harry Tyler

    as Joe Eliot

  • Ralph Remley

    as D'Arcy - Singer

  • Zeffie Tilbury

    as Mrs. Sanders

  • Jack Kelly

    as Banker's Son (uncredited)

  • Esther Brodelet

    as Telephone Operator

  • Tyler Brooke

    as Mr. Calhoun

  • Nora Cecil

    as Miss Jenkins

  • Davison Clark

    as Court Attendant at Door

  • Dick Elliott

    as Man Laughing at Demo

  • Edmund Elton

    as Banker at Demo

  • Fern Emmett

    as Mac Gregor's Maid

  • Mary Field

    as Piano Player

  • George Guhl

    as Mr. Winthrop

  • Otto Hoffman

    as Pawnbroker

  • Warren Jackson

    as Tom

  • Frank Jaquet

    as Edward

  • Sheldon Jett

    as New England Telephone Company Executive

  • Edward Keane

    as Banker at Demo

  • Crauford Kent

    as General

  • Edward LeSaint

    as Banker at Demonstration

  • Jarold Clifford Lyons

    as Infant

  • Dave Morris

    as Telegrapher

  • Ottola Nesmith

    as Nora

  • Ruth Robinson

    as Nurse

  • John Graham Spacey

    as Sir John Cowell

  • Landers Stevens

    as Manager of New England Telephone Exchange

  • Charles Tannen

    as Court Clerk

  • William Wagner

    as

  • Eddy Waller

    as Storekeeper

  • Jack Walsh

    as James J. Starrow

  • Lillian West

    as Sanders' Nurse

  • John Elliott

    as Banker at Demo
Writing Ray Harris Story
Writing Lamar Trotti Screenplay
Directing Irving Cummings Director
Production Darryl F. Zanuck Producer
Costume & Make-Up Royer Costume Design
Editing Walter Thompson Editor
Art Mark-Lee Kirk Art Direction
Art Richard Day Art Direction
Art Thomas Little Set Decoration
Camera Leon Shamroy Director of Photography
Sound Louis Silvers Music Director
Production Kenneth Macgowan Associate Producer
Directing Ad Schaumer Assistant Director
Sound Ernst Toch Original Music Composer

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