Movie · 1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Released 4 April 1939 More from 1939 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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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How old were they?
Edward LeSaint
as Banker at Demonstration
Elizabeth Patterson
as Mrs. MacGregor
Spring Byington
as Mrs. Hubbard
Tyler Brooke
as Mr. Calhoun
Dick Elliott
as Man Laughing at Demo
Claire Du Brey
as Landlady
Russell Hicks
as Mr. Barrows
Sally Blane
as Gertrude Hubbard
Loretta Young
as Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell
Jack Kelly
as Banker's Son (uncredited)
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The numbers
57years between the oldest and youngest billed
68Edward LeSaint — oldest on the call sheet
11Jack Kelly — youngest billed
44average age of the credited cast