The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
April 4, 1939Release Date
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
April 4, 1939Release Date


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Cast & Crew.

Don Ameche
Alexander Graham Bell

Loretta Young
Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell

Henry Fonda
Thomas Watson

Charles Coburn
Gardner Hubbard

Gene Lockhart
Thomas Sanders

Spring Byington
Mrs. Hubbard

Sally Blane
Gertrude Hubbard

Polly Ann Young
Grace Hubbard

Georgiana Young
Berta Hubbard

Bobs Watson
George Sanders

Russell Hicks
Mr. Barrows

Paul Stanton
Chauncey Smith

Jonathan Hale
President of Western Union

Harry Davenport
Judge Rider

Beryl Mercer
Queen Victoria

Elizabeth Patterson
Mrs. MacGregor

Charles Trowbridge
George Pollard

Jan Duggan
Mrs. Winthrop

Claire Du Brey
Landlady

Harry Tyler
Joe Eliot

Ralph Remley
D'Arcy - Singer

Zeffie Tilbury
Mrs. Sanders

Jack Kelly
Banker's Son (uncredited)

Esther Brodelet
Telephone Operator

Tyler Brooke
Mr. Calhoun

Nora Cecil
Miss Jenkins

Davison Clark
Court Attendant at Door

Dick Elliott
Man Laughing at Demo

Edmund Elton
Banker at Demo

Fern Emmett
Mac Gregor's Maid

Mary Field
Piano Player

George Guhl
Mr. Winthrop

Otto Hoffman
Pawnbroker

Warren Jackson
Tom

Frank Jaquet
Edward

Sheldon Jett
New England Telephone Company Executive

Edward Keane
Banker at Demo

Crauford Kent
General

Edward LeSaint
Banker at Demonstration

Jarold Clifford Lyons
Infant

Dave Morris
Telegrapher

Ottola Nesmith
Nora

Ruth Robinson
Nurse

John Graham Spacey
Sir John Cowell

Landers Stevens
Manager of New England Telephone Exchange

Charles Tannen
Court Clerk

Eddy Waller
Storekeeper

Jack Walsh
James J. Starrow

Lillian West
Sanders' Nurse

John Elliott
Banker at Demo

Irving Cummings
Director

Ray Harris
Story

Lamar Trotti
Screenplay

Walter Thompson
Editor

Thomas Little
Set Decoration

Mark-Lee Kirk
Art Direction
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Details.
Release DateApril 4, 1939
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
Content RatingNR
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell is a somewhat fictionalized 1939 biographical film of the famous inventor. It was filmed in black-and-white and released by Twentieth Century-Fox. The film stars Don Ameche as Bell and Loretta Young as Mabel, his wife, who contracted scarlet fever at an early age and became deaf.
The first half of the film concentrates on the hero's romantic, financial, and scientific struggle.
Henry Fonda is notable in a co-starring role as Mr. Watson, who hears the first words ever spoken over the telephone. In a pivotal scene, Bell (Don Ameche), while working on the telephone, accidentally spills acid onto his lap and shouts in pain, βMr. Watson, come here! I want you!β Watson, barely able to contain his own excitement, rushes into the room and stammers out the news that he heard Bell calling out to him over the telephone receiver. Bell has Watson repeat his own words to him to confirm it, and the two men begin hopping around the room, with Watson yelling out a war whoop.
The last part depicts the legal struggle against Western Union over patent priority in the invention of the telephone, ending with a courtroom victory. The final scene has the hero contemplating crewed flight, under his wife's adoring gaze.
The film led to the use of the word "ameche" as juvenile slang for a telephone, as noted by Mike Kilen in the Iowa City Gazette: "The film prompted a generation to call people to the telephone with the phrase: 'You're wanted on the Ameche.'" Such an identity between Ameche and the telephone was forged, that in the 1940 film Go West, Groucho Marx proclaims, "Telephone? This is 1870, Don Ameche hasn't invented the telephone yet."
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