---
title: 'The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Irving Cummings'
released: '1939-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 95
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-story-of-alexander-graham-bell-1939'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031981/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

1939 · 95 min · Drama, History · United States


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Irving Cummings](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-cummings)
- **Screenplay:** [Lamar Trotti](https://cinepixo.com/people/lamar-trotti)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ernst Toch](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-toch)
- **Producer:** [Darryl F. Zanuck](https://cinepixo.com/people/darryl-f-zanuck), [Kenneth Macgowan](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-macgowan)
- **Director of Photography:** [Leon Shamroy](https://cinepixo.com/people/leon-shamroy)
- **Editor:** [Walter A. Thompson](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-a-thompson)

## Cast

- [Crauford Kent](https://cinepixo.com/people/crauford-kent)
- [Fern Emmett](https://cinepixo.com/people/fern-emmett)
- [Spring Byington](https://cinepixo.com/people/spring-byington)
- [John Elliott](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-elliott)
- [Polly Ann Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/polly-ann-young)
- [Charles Trowbridge](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-trowbridge)
- [Russell Hicks](https://cinepixo.com/people/russell-hicks)
- [Sally Blane](https://cinepixo.com/people/sally-blane)
- [Nora Cecil](https://cinepixo.com/people/nora-cecil)
- [Beryl Mercer](https://cinepixo.com/people/beryl-mercer)
- [Henry Fonda](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-fonda)
- [Jonathan Hale](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-hale)
- [Don Ameche](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-ameche)
- [Loretta Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/loretta-young)
- [Charles Coburn](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-coburn)

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