The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

6.3/10 98 min Drama History

Overview

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.

Cast

Don Ameche

Alexander Graham Bell

Loretta Young

Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

Henry Fonda

Thomas Watson

Charles Coburn

Gardner Hubbard

Gene Lockhart

Thomas Sanders

Spring Byington

Mrs. Hubbard

Sally Blane

Gertrude Hubbard

Polly Ann Young

Grace Hubbard

Georgiana Young

Berta Hubbard

Bobs Watson

George Sanders

Russell Hicks

Mr. Barrows

Paul Stanton

Chauncey Smith

Jonathan Hale

President of Western Union

Harry Davenport

Judge Rider

Beryl Mercer

Queen Victoria

Elizabeth Patterson

Mrs. MacGregor

Charles Trowbridge

George Pollard

Jan Duggan

Mrs. Winthrop

Claire Du Brey

Landlady

Harry Tyler

Joe Eliot

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