Released:
1939-04-04

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.

Director:
Irving Cummings

Runtime:
1h 38min

Genre:
Drama, History

• Cast:
• 
  Don Ameche
  as
  Alexander Graham Bell
• 
  Loretta Young
  as
  Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell
• 
  Henry Fonda
  as
  Thomas Watson
• 
  Charles Coburn
  as
  Gardner Hubbard
• 
  Gene Lockhart
  as
  Thomas Sanders