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Film / 1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Directed by
Irving Cummings
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.
The story
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 AmecheAlexander Graham Bell
Loretta YoungMrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell
Henry FondaThomas Watson
Charles CoburnGardner Hubbard
Gene LockhartThomas Sanders
Spring ByingtonMrs. Hubbard
Sally BlaneGertrude Hubbard
Polly Ann YoungGrace Hubbard
Georgiana YoungBerta Hubbard
Bobs WatsonGeorge Sanders
Russell HicksMr. Barrows
Paul StantonChauncey Smith
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Jonathan HalePresident of Western Union
Harry DavenportJudge Rider
Beryl MercerQueen Victoria
Elizabeth PattersonMrs. MacGregor
Charles TrowbridgeGeorge Pollard
Jan DugganMrs. Winthrop
Claire Du BreyLandlady
Harry TylerJoe Eliot
Ralph RemleyD'Arcy - Singer
Zeffie TilburyMrs. Sanders
Jack KellyBanker's Son (uncredited)
Esther BrodeletTelephone Operator
Tyler BrookeMr. Calhoun
Nora CecilMiss Jenkins
Davison ClarkCourt Attendant at Door
Dick ElliottMan Laughing at Demo
Edmund EltonBanker at Demo
Fern EmmettMac Gregor's Maid
Mary FieldPiano Player
George GuhlMr. Winthrop
Otto HoffmanPawnbroker
Warren JacksonTom
Frank JaquetEdward
Sheldon JettNew England Telephone Company Executive
Edward KeaneBanker at Demo
Crauford KentGeneral
Edward LeSaintBanker at Demonstration
Jarold Clifford LyonsInfant
Dave MorrisTelegrapher
Ottola NesmithNora
Ruth RobinsonNurse
John Graham SpaceySir John Cowell
Landers StevensManager of New England Telephone Exchange
Charles TannenCourt Clerk
William Wagner
Eddy WallerStorekeeper
Jack WalshJames J. Starrow
Lillian WestSanders' Nurse
John ElliottBanker at Demo
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