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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

(1939)

April 4, 1939• 1h 38m
63%
TMDB Score

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.

Irving Cummings

Director

Top Billed Cast

DA

Don Ameche

Alexander Graham Bell

LY

Loretta Young

Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

HF

Henry Fonda

Thomas Watson

CC

Charles Coburn

Gardner Hubbard

GL

Gene Lockhart

Thomas Sanders

SB

Spring Byington

Mrs. Hubbard

SB

Sally Blane

Gertrude Hubbard

PAY

Polly Ann Young

Grace Hubbard

GY

Georgiana Young

Berta Hubbard

BW

Bobs Watson

George Sanders

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