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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

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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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DirectorIrving Cummings

Keywords

inventortelephonebiographyhistorical figure

Cast

Don Ameche as Alexander Graham Bell

Don Ameche

Alexander Graham Bell

Loretta Young as Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

Loretta Young

Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

Henry Fonda as Thomas Watson

Henry Fonda

Thomas Watson

Charles Coburn as Gardner Hubbard

Charles Coburn

Gardner Hubbard

Gene Lockhart as Thomas Sanders

Gene Lockhart

Thomas Sanders

Spring Byington as Mrs. Hubbard

Spring Byington

Mrs. Hubbard

Sally Blane as Gertrude Hubbard

Sally Blane

Gertrude Hubbard

Polly Ann Young as Grace Hubbard

Polly Ann Young

Grace Hubbard

Georgiana Young as Berta Hubbard

Georgiana Young

Berta Hubbard

Bobs Watson as George Sanders

Bobs Watson

George Sanders