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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

59 %|Apr 4, 1939|Drama, History

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.

Featured Crew

Irving Cummings
Director
Ray Harris
Story
Lamar Trotti
Screenplay
Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer
Walter Thompson
Editor
Richard Day
Art Direction
Mark-Lee Kirk
Art Direction
Thomas Little
Set Decoration

Cast

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Don Ameche
Alexander Graham Bell
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Loretta Young
Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell
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Henry Fonda
Thomas Watson
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Charles Coburn
Gardner Hubbard
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Gene Lockhart
Thomas Sanders
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Spring Byington
Mrs. Hubbard
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Sally Blane
Gertrude Hubbard
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Polly Ann Young
Grace Hubbard
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Georgiana Young
Berta Hubbard
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Bobs Watson
George Sanders
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Russell Hicks
Mr. Barrows
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Paul Stanton
Chauncey Smith
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Jonathan Hale
President of Western Union
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Harry Davenport
Judge Rider
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Beryl Mercer
Queen Victoria
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Elizabeth Patterson
Mrs. MacGregor
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Charles Trowbridge
George Pollard
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Jan Duggan
Mrs. Winthrop
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Harry Tyler
Joe Eliot
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Ralph Remley
D'Arcy - Singer
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Zeffie Tilbury
Mrs. Sanders
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Jack Kelly
Banker's Son (uncredited)
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Esther Brodelet
Telephone Operator
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Tyler Brooke
Mr. Calhoun
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Nora Cecil
Miss Jenkins
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Davison Clark
Court Attendant at Door
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Dick Elliott
Man Laughing at Demo
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Edmund Elton
Banker at Demo
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Fern Emmett
Mac Gregor's Maid
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Mary Field
Piano Player
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George Guhl
Mr. Winthrop
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Otto Hoffman
Pawnbroker
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Sheldon Jett
New England Telephone Company Executive
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Edward Keane
Banker at Demo
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Edward LeSaint
Banker at Demonstration
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Dave Morris
Telegrapher
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John Graham Spacey
Sir John Cowell
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Landers Stevens
Manager of New England Telephone Exchange
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Charles Tannen
Court Clerk
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Eddy Waller
Storekeeper
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Jack Walsh
James J. Starrow
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Lillian West
Sanders' Nurse
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John Elliott
Banker at Demo