The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
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.
- Released
- 1939-04-04
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Irving Cummings, Lamar Trotti
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 from 21 votes
Cast
- 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