The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

Name: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Director: Irving Cummings
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1939-04-04
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart

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1939

1h 38m

Drama History

Director: Irving Cummings

Writers: Ray Harris, Lamar Trotti

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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.