

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1 hour 38 minutes1939-04-04
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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 Ameche
Alexander Graham Bell

Loretta Young
Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

Henry Fonda
Thomas Watson

Charles Coburn
Gardner Hubbard

Gene Lockhart
Thomas Sanders

Spring Byington
Mrs. Hubbard

Sally Blane
Gertrude Hubbard

Polly Ann Young
Grace Hubbard

Georgiana Young
Berta Hubbard

Bobs Watson
George Sanders

Russell Hicks
Mr. Barrows

Paul Stanton
Chauncey Smith

Jonathan Hale
President of Western Union

Harry Davenport
Judge Rider

Beryl Mercer
Queen Victoria

Elizabeth Patterson
Mrs. MacGregor

Charles Trowbridge
George Pollard

Jan Duggan
Mrs. Winthrop

Claire Du Brey
Landlady

Harry Tyler
Joe Eliot

Ralph Remley
D'Arcy - Singer

Zeffie Tilbury
Mrs. Sanders

Jack Kelly
Banker's Son (uncredited)

Esther Brodelet
Telephone Operator

Tyler Brooke
Mr. Calhoun

Nora Cecil
Miss Jenkins

Davison Clark
Court Attendant at Door

Dick Elliott
Man Laughing at Demo

Edmund Elton
Banker at Demo

Fern Emmett
Mac Gregor's Maid

Mary Field
Piano Player

George Guhl
Mr. Winthrop

Otto Hoffman
Pawnbroker

Warren Jackson
Tom

Frank Jaquet
Edward

Sheldon Jett
New England Telephone Company Executive

Edward Keane
Banker at Demo

Crauford Kent
General

Edward LeSaint
Banker at Demonstration

Jarold Clifford Lyons
Infant

Dave Morris
Telegrapher

Ottola Nesmith
Nora

Ruth Robinson
Nurse

John Graham Spacey
Sir John Cowell

Landers Stevens
Manager of New England Telephone Exchange

Charles Tannen
Court Clerk

William Wagner

Eddy Waller
Storekeeper

Jack Walsh
James J. Starrow

Lillian West
Sanders' Nurse
