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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

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.

1939 |1h 38m |  Drama, History

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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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Claire Du Brey

Landlady

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Harry Tyler

Joe Eliot

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Zeffie Tilbury

Mrs. Sanders

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Jack Kelly

Banker's Son (uncredited)

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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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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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Edward Keane

Banker at Demo

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Crauford Kent

General

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Edward LeSaint

Banker at Demonstration

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Ottola Nesmith

Nora

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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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Lillian West

Sanders' Nurse

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John Elliott

Banker at Demo

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Language

English

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