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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.
Story: Ray Harris
Screenplay: Lamar Trotti
Director: Irving Cummings
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Director of Photography: Leon Shamroy
Alexander Graham Bell
Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell
Thomas Watson
Gardner Hubbard
Thomas Sanders
Mrs. Hubbard
Gertrude Hubbard
Grace Hubbard
Premiere of "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell" (1939)