The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
(1939)

Darryl F. Zanuck's Entertainment gem will take its place in the Hall of Fame !

Released: 1939-04-04

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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.

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Don Ameche

as Alexander Graham Bell

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Loretta Young

as Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

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Henry Fonda

as Thomas Watson

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Charles Coburn

as Gardner Hubbard

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Gene Lockhart

as Thomas Sanders

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Spring Byington

as Mrs. Hubbard

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Sally Blane

as Gertrude Hubbard

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Polly Ann Young

as Grace Hubbard

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Georgiana Young

as Berta Hubbard

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Bobs Watson

as George Sanders

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Russell Hicks

as Mr. Barrows

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Paul Stanton

as Chauncey Smith

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Jonathan Hale

as President of Western Union

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Harry Davenport

as Judge Rider

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Beryl Mercer

as Queen Victoria

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Elizabeth Patterson

as Mrs. MacGregor

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Charles Trowbridge

as George Pollard

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Jan Duggan

as Mrs. Winthrop

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Harry Tyler

as Joe Eliot

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Costume Design

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Mark-Lee Kirk

Art Direction

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Richard Day

Art Direction

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Thomas Little

Set Decoration

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Leon Shamroy

Director of Photography

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Louis Silvers

Music Director

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Kenneth Macgowan

Associate Producer

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Ad Schaumer

Assistant Director

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Ernst Toch

Original Music Composer

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