Film · Drama, History
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Darryl F. Zanuck's Entertainment gem will take its place in the Hall of Fame !
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.
- Director
- Irving Cummings
- Writers
- Ray Harris, Lamar Trotti
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- April 4, 1939
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
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
