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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

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Duration:
98 min
Genres:
Biography | Drama | History
IMDB rate:
7.1
Director:
Irving Cummings
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1939-04-14
Filming Locations: Stage 2, 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
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
Georgiana Young
Berta Hubbard
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. Mac Gregor
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
Esther Brodelet
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Tyler Brooke
Mr. Calhoun (uncredited)
Nora Cecil
Miss Jenkins (uncredited)
Davison Clark
Court Attendant at Door (uncredited)
Dick Elliott
Man Laughing at Demo (uncredited)
John Elliott
Banker at Demo (uncredited)
Edmund Elton
Banker at Demo (uncredited)
Fern Emmett
Mac Gregor's Maid (uncredited)
Mary Field
Piano Player (uncredited)
George Guhl
Mr. Winthrop (uncredited)
Otto Hoffman
Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Warren Jackson
Tom (uncredited)
Frank Jaquet
Edward (uncredited)
Sheldon Jett
New England Telephone Company Executive (uncredited)
Edward Keane
Banker at Demo (uncredited)
Jack Kelly
Banker's Son (uncredited)
Crauford Kent
General (uncredited)
Edward LeSaint
Banker at Demonstration (uncredited)
Jarold Clifford Lyons
Infant (uncredited)
Dave Morris
Telegrapher (uncredited)
Ottola Nesmith
Nora (uncredited)
Ruth Robinson
Nurse (uncredited)
John Graham Spacey
Sir John Cowell (uncredited)
Landers Stevens
Manager of New England Telephone Exchange (uncredited)
Charles Tannen
Court Clerk (uncredited)
William Wagner
(uncredited)
Eddy Waller
Storekeeper (uncredited)
Jack Walsh
James J. Starrow (uncredited)
Lillian West
Sanders' Nurse (uncredited)
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Trivia
Don Ameche's brother, Jim Ameche, portrayed Alexander Graham Bell in The Story of Mankind (1957).
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Alexander Graham Bell's daughter, Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, had official script approval.
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After the film was released, the telephone was commonly called the "Ameche", a slang term referring to actor Don Ameche who played the telephone's inventor. This association is explained in the film Ball of Fire (1941), showing the term was still in use two years after the release of the original film.
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Goofs
Bell said, that he sent the first time a sound through a wire, in the 1870s. The actual first sound through a wire was made by Philipp Reis in 1862.
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One of the stories in the movie, that is set in 1873, is that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone "in his youth". But the first telephone was invented by Antonio Meucci in 1860 and Johann Philipp Reis in 1861, who also called his device "telephone", not Bell as it's stated in the movie. Bell didn't invented THE telephone but A telephone, the Bell-telephone.
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Quotes
Alexander Graham Bell: Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!
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Alexander Graham Bell: Your honor... Have I committed some offense by starving in an attic? by spending sleepless nights at my work? by being too poor to own a decent scrap of paper, on which to tell her of my love? I have sat here for days and heard myself called liar, thief, fraud and cheat. I've seen my friends humiliated, my invention belittled, just as I have seen my business destroyed by methods which must leave every honest man appalled.
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Alexander Graham Bell: ...shall the lonely scientist, the man who dreams, and out of his dreams benefits the world, is he, that often half-starved, lonely little man, to be told the world has no need of him the moment his work is done?
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