The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
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- A classy biopic of the inventor of the telephone, which was for a while called the "Ameche" in the movie's honor. Stars Don Ameche, Loretta Young, and Henry Fonda. With Charles Coburn, Spring Byington, Gene Lockhart, and Young's sisters Polly Ann and Georgiana. Directed by Irving Cummings.
I don't own this movie; I just want to give it a wider audience. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Loved this movie. Good acting and production. Wish we could go back to such great movies. Hollywod has lost tou h with what people want to see.
A great movie! Zanuck and his employees struck gold! Yet another great 1939 movie!
1939 was a great year for movies.
I just read that Ricardo Montalban saw this movie when he was 15. He carried a picture around with him afterwards of Georgiana Young, Loretta's sister. Later, they married, and she was his wife for 64 years until she died in 2007. I searched for the movie and here it is! I had to see the movie that he saw!
Not that it matters much but Ricardo Montalban was born in 1920 and Georgiana Young in 1923. The movie was made in 1939, which would have made Ricardo 19 at the time and Georgiana, 16, but it's a beautiful love story nevertheless. They married in 1944.
Lovely part of history...the real stories behind the scenes. Thanks for sharing that. Her sisters are all beautiful too.
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Beautiful story
Great story
This is the youngest I have seen Don Ameche. He was very handsome.
@Shanan Alexander Whoa! Good obs! I didn't recognize that was Ameche until seeing your comment. Love these old movies!
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
I sure am lucky this movie is on CZcams this is my first time watching this, and I know this is good. Thank you Mr. Bell.
Watching this in the middle of the covid pandemic. I am so sorry life is no longer so beautiful like life in this movie.
A WONDERFUL MOVIE!!!!
I visited his estate & museum in Breton Island Nova Scotia few years back, I only knew about the telephone, but he was an inventor of lots of things, but only his telephone was famous.. He was a very inventive person.
Absolutely wonderful esp since true story, which r the best. It's getting a history lesson. What a fantastic dynamic cast: Don Amiche, Henry Fonda, Loretta Young, Spring Byington. A real pleasure❤
Great man Mr.Alexander Graham Bell 💜🙏
Excellent movie 🎥 and a blessing of our history worth remembering.
Very Good Movie. His invention was so Huge and has had a profound Impact on Society! The Phone of My Childhood was the Rotary Dial Telephone, and to think now We all carry them in our Pockets!
He didn't invent the telephone.
But I miss the rotary dial telephone. Especially the red one hanging on the kitchen wall or the pink princess phone. Maybe I'll go get one again.
You know Mr. Bell did something important and marvelous the world celebrated him with this movie did Thomas Edison invent motion picture? If he did I know he should have a film too. Mr. Bell was an amazing person that went through so much that made people have an easier future and something to look forward to spend some of their money on, their phone bill.
@@cedricsmith8188 I'm not so sure Thomas Edison was a decent person. I hear too many bad stories, so I do not really know anymore. I doubt that he was the inventor of the motion picture, I believe that was a Frenchman.
I love the oldies ....bring back so many cozy Saturday afternoon together with,beautiful mum and dad
We would watch our black and white movies.
Over a lovely hot chocolate .
I miss you mum and dad .
I shall see you both soon . In paradise ....
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new world shortly Don't say soon say eventually.
Trump 2020
Kevin Thompson, No one is interested in that New World! Trump 2020
So true...ran home from school and mom and I would watch The Early Show which was all movie from Hollywood’s Golden Era.
Beautiful words!
Brilliant movie! The cast was outstanding. Thanks for the post.
Very good movie indeed. I work in telephone department and I would urge all my colleagues to watch this beautiful movie. Don Ameche , Loretta Young are excellent here
People.... really don't have any idea how the mother of neccesity is the best life lesson that can be taught to the young and old...this is a classic!
Loved this movie! I've been watching old movies, but this one is a history lesson.
@Lew Rodd Oh my goodness we know that oh my gosh people are so nitpicky it was an amazing movie start the first one I seen about at least until Alexander Graham Bell and Watson
@Lew Rodd I don’t care if it was and I don’t know if it was because I didn’t live then nobody knows what are real history really yes there were native Americans black Americans that invented things and white people took their credit so we don’t even know who really did anything because nobody’s old enough to have lived at that time the history in school sure is not real, and if you believe it is I have some oceanfront property in Arizona where my son lives that he will sell you cheap
An endearing and heartwarming reenactment of the historical story of the invention of the telephone. Very well done. 👍🏽👍🏽
I love this movie . I saw it as a child and never forgot it . I have loved Don Ameche ever since .
+Jill Shaw What did love you about it?
Plus a young Henry Fonda. What a cast
Absolutely. We owe him everything in technology.
40:42 - 41:53 is such an amazing moment. First his wife pretty much forces Bell to not give up on what he has worked so hard for (pretty much the reason we were able to end up talking to eachother on the phone), then its just a golden comedic moment when Henry Fonda (Watson) leads the mother towards the window, and he keeps tapping her on the shoulder to point to stuff out the window in order to distract her from them kissing.
I loved how she keeps turning around but Watson keeps tapping her shoulder. It's just such a priceless moment, I laughed more than I do in many full length comedies these days...and this is just a biographical story, not a comedy in the slightest bit, yet it worked so well!
Also it shows how strong his wife's love is for his dreams. She wasn't selfish saying "oh give it up, we'll still love eachother" she threatens to not get married unless he continues what he is passionate about. Almost makes my eyes water to be honest, just thinking of it.
I swear, the biographies are the BEST! And I agree with everything you wrote! And true love is supporting the other in their dreams, is it not?
I agree, you are so right. Just look what has happened today. I was born in the wrong era for sure.
IT REALLY SEEM LIKE A RESPECTFUL TIME IN HISTORY ...WHEN HUMANS THOUGHT BEFORE SPEAKING 🗣️...WELL AT LEAST FOR SOME.. BLESSINGS ALL 🙏🏾❤🙏🏾.
A highly polished Hollywood biopic. Excellent cast too. Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Spring Byington & Gene Lockhart. Loretta Young's sisters are played by her real life sisters, Sally Blane (Elizabeth Young), Polly Ann Young & Georgiana Young. Haven't seen this in many years. Fun to see again.
What a wonderful movie, and the picture is so clear, no white spot.
As sad as it is to say this, I just got done watching Don Ameche in Trading Places, and I Googled Don Ameche to see when he passed because I always enjoyed his movies when I stumbled upon his filmography and I saw this movie. To be honest I just wanted to see Don Ameche as a young man, as all of the movies I've ever seen him in he was older. Rest in peace Don Ameche. You've left the entire world with a legacy of great movies for all of us to remember you by.
I loved him in Ramona with Loretta Young in 1936 a young handsome man.
He seemed to be a real gentleman.
Although he received an Academy Award for "Cocoon" in 1984, the best of his later years was "Things Change" based on a David Mamet screen play.
I like this movie very much. Don Amerche's best and a good showcase for Henry Fonda who made several significant movies in 1939, as a lead actor. Charles Coburn and Loretta Young stand out.
One of my favorite movies. I recorded this on VHS years ago. So glad to find and get to see this again. Thanks so very much for posting this move, sure means a lot for me. Brings back many memories with my father and myself watching this.
My mother became deaf starting in her thirties. As time went on she used hearing aids that went from large and cumbersome to very small. When she died in 1995 she was completely deaf but was able to hear with 2 aids. She read lips and detected what we teenagers said when we wer acting up. She also would "switch off"when my dad ranted.
I live in Nova Scotia Canada, I urge visitors to go to The Alexander Graham Bell museum in Baddeck which is on Cape Breton island part of our province. He and his family lived out their life there. He continued to invent and made significant contributions to aviation.
Most notably, despite his inventions, he helped people learn to communicate including Dr Helen Keller. Imagine having no sight and no hearing. I also would love it if he could see how his inventions have evolved.
Definitely would be fun to see him see how his inventions evolved! Would love to visit & explore the area & museum! Nova Scotia is some place I have always wanted to visit! Being about 100 miles below BC, I haven't made it that far east. Lol This movie has been a favorite since I saw it a number of years ago! Love the true stories! So much richer & deeper than any fairy tale, in my humble opinion! Many that depict real history are the real treasures of cinema! My aunt become deaf in her early 20s, I can barely remember when she could hear! She ended up trying the colloquial ear plants! Ended up with many infections & many health problems as a result, but she enjoyed what hearing it did bring back! We mostly communicate in email these days! Her child hood sweetheart & her communicate well! ❤ Married 50 yrs
He would be disappointed with the "smart phone" once he saw how much time it consumes from people, especially children. It seems every ten year old must have their own phone now. Parents use the excuse of safety to hand them out tho children.
I have never seen a more beautiful and meaningful movie than this!!!! A real gem!!!
If there's one inventor I"d want brought back to life is this man, Alexander Graham Bell, to see and experience for himself the marvel his discovery has become...🌹
@Augustus Antonius Yep. Well, Bell did some work on it but he didn't discover it.
@Augustus Antonius ok I read this book , a newer book about 10 years ago that said , Elisha Gray invented the telephone . Bell was a linguist and for some reason , a inventor ? He was working on inventing sign language for deaf people .
He also designed a telegraph system whereby you could send more than one message over the same line . At the time , you could only send one message at a time so that’s why there were so many Telegraph lines .
Now Bells father in law managed to swipe grays patent application on a Friday and I guess he copied the part with the telephone diagram and inserted it into Bells application .
The records of Elisha Gray were at Oberlin college but I think they disappeared .
@Augustus Antonius I learned this during my studies of telecommunication engineering. Evertytime I use the "bel"-notation I feel dirty.
I enjoyed this historical movie from Germany. Thanks ,,Bell,, and for the person who shared this movie ♥️🙋
The only film where the Young sisters were together. A treasure!!!
This is a wonderful movie.I knew a lot of this history, but it was wonderful seeing Don Amechi.What ashame they don't make movies like this anymore.
This is a wonderful movie and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Nice to see actors having to act instead of relying on special effects like current movies.
I always find myself always going back in time to the oldies ...Mary Tyler Moore ...Jackie Gleason ...Carol Burnett and old movies during this Pandemic ....wow ...have times changed and not for the better ...very tense and hurtful and hateful times we are in ...I pray we get thru this
I just love such bio pics., Great cast wonderful performances by all. Costume, and set superb. If you have a dream never give up your pursuit to give birth to it because it may just benefit many people.
I did enjoy watching this story. Beautiful old costumes!
Thanks for posting this wonderful old classic! Hadn't seen it in many decades, delighted to see it again.
I love love LOVE oldie B&W movies this is a great movie w/a great cast! Thank you for sharing 💖😇
Wow, he’d be blown away with mobile phones now wouldn’t he.
This is what I enjoy watching . The spirit of innovation, the joy of discovery , accidental or otherwise. Medical , engineering, electrical, commerce....
Thank you, thank you, Thank You for providing this wonderful movie. Not only is it great in its own right, but offers the only opportunity to see the four Young sisters acting together in a movie. How lovely they are! The upload is s so clear in picture and sound. A real treasure!!!
They are so beautiful, I always thought Loretta Young was so beautiful and she had a wonderful smile. Have you seen her in The Farmer’s Daughter? Another great movie, if you haven’t seen it you will love it!
Thanks to Mr. Alexander Graham Bell I am typing my comment, on my telephone.✌
Thanks also to Steve Jobs???!!!
Enjoyed this. The hard work he put himself through to succeed and then having to prove that it was his invention. Not many people will do that but this was a truly remarkable man who just wanted the world to have something that could improve their lives.
Great movie,thanks for sharing
I realize that the term "deaf and dumb" was a common reference to people who lacked hearing and language skills back then, but deafness was not in any way related to intelligence. I have two cousins, siblings, who have been deaf since birth and they both work and have families.
Helen Keller could see or hear. Yet she graduated from Radcliffe☺️
You should file that under - 'Nobody gives a shit'
All the people in the movie appear to be loving, kind, respectful, truthful and honest. Maybe that's how the people used to be in those days?
@Thomas Bailey It's good to know that people have a taste for such movies about innovation, initiative and perseverance. I find such real stories fascinating. Just curious, are you into engineering or technology, by profession?
People didn’t lock their doors back then. Didn’t have to.
@As Bu
I don`t think so. Historical facts are against this theory.
I remember relatives from that era many many years ago. They were definitely more respectful, civil and gently spoken. And what is more importantly it was the standard for good behaviour and understood as the ideal even if everyone couldn't live up to it.
The lack of courtesy and manners, and loss of a love for goodness, is an indication of the degradation of a society to a very low level as we see today.
Why?
The 'ideal' has become rude, crude, lewd and self-serving or PHONY 'nice' to get one's way, make a buck, etc. Virtuousness as exhibited by Mabel and most other characters in this film was understood by everyone to be the right thing and was desired. We are losing goodness, true morals (not political signalling) and the ability to make moral decisions.
Strong traditional family values value honour and integrity over money. This is a good place to start. Every individual can choose to form their life around goodness and choose a partner to build a family around that goodness. Even if you don't see these things reflected in the society around you. It takes strength and self-denial to be good.
Mabel is certainly an angel, this entire story is more potent than any fairy tale ever "told". The fact that a girl who became deaf would later, ironically lead to the greatest influence of a man who would introduce the world to the telephone. Which means that "love" is the reason we can call eachother on a phone today and tell eachother "I Love You", something that Alexander always wanted to tell Mabel.
It's actually so romantic that it's overwhelming.
Isn't that ironic or miracle from God I choose both.
@@bjay4u280 GOD'S miracles can be ironic, can they not? Lol love HIS sense of humor!
Another classic making the world a little better. Thank you & God bless
One of my all-time faves. Thanks much for the upload.
Great movie. Thank you for download
Although outdated an extremely powerful and thought provoking movie, bravo!
Good quality movies like this just are not, and cannot be made like this anymore, mainly because our society has become so morally corrupted, glad we have movies like this to go back to.
Andrew Gems yes you are right ! Only God can help
Andrew Gems
True!
Same Dear
Absolute rubbish. Great, and far far better films are made all the time; look outside Hollywood.
That is so true
The story lines, acting with no swearing and blatant sex...... it is so refreshing to watch these
I loved this movie. All the old ones. ❤️
There is 327 comments to this film. I did not read everyone. This gives us history. History that are children should be taught in schools. Not the history they are being taught.
This is gold.Beautiful movie.
Loretta Young is like an angel, so beautiful and amazing actress. Do others see her the way I do?
Really interesting and great performances--TY
Love this movie! Kept it in my cable library while I had it, would love to have this in our permanent library! Love soaking it up at bedtime! Thanks so much for sharing! Ameche Loretta Young favorites!
Utterly humbling, thought-provoking and awe-inspiring. Thank you! 👏👏💜
I had known of the joke that 'Don Ameche' had invented the telephone, long before I had seen the film.
What a beautiful pre-trade piece of brilliant history of one of the biggest brilliant invention , by a poor genius ! , put into a drama .
55:00 Gosh!
Who else teared up when that deaf little boy said 'Father'?
I did.
I have watched this movie so many times with my granny. She passed away two years ago in November, and for some reason, last night, I was craving a desire to watch this again. Such a beautiful thing to find it here. I felt connected to Granny again as I watched this. Don Ameche is the star of this one, and Henry Fonda his perfect foil in a supporting role. Loretta Young captures the vulnerability and strength of the woman who won't let him give up on his dream.
Nice to see; a really enjoyable film with a good script and proper professional actors doing their best for the art, unlike modern shallow films full of special effects to cover the so called actors "Look at ME" performances! Thank you for sharing it a very enjoyable ninety minutes even if the validity of the inventors claim is questioned now. As shown, before the Phone it took a man 4hrs walking in the snow to deliver a simple message thats something not often thought of these days, sometimes it takes a good film to remind us of how much we now have, than you Frankie Burton.
+Ping Pong
Yes, we take phones and TV for granted. We cannot imagine a world with out them. My very first Memory is watching the TV News, with some man talking about "Israel, Egypt and Syria". I was so small, my feet did not touch the floor. It must have been when I was 2 years old in October 1956, when Israel, France and Britain invaded Egypt.
And our children will never know a world without computers and the Internet.
In 1973, my Father was a Real Estate Broker selling a house in Elmhurst, Queens, New York City. He was told it belong to a man who died, named H.W. O'Neil. Supposedly, O'Neil invented the Dial Tone for the telephone in 1910. But I was never able to confirm that. Before the Dial Tone, you had to call the Operator to place a call. They could not hire enough Operators. The Dial Tone allowed every phone to be its own Telephone Exchange.
O'Neil's nearest relative was his Son, a Dentist in Westchester, who had no time or desire to go through his Dad's house. He said we could go through the house and that "anything in the house was ours", just sell the house and send him the money.
It was amazing what we found in that house!
We found a wooden telephone and the cord was covered in cloth, not rubber!
There was a sword in a holder, with French writing inscribed on it and dated 1799! And a long rifle with the date 1861 !
We found textbooks from the U.S. Naval Academy dated 1875!
And a tiny notebook, about 4 inches long and one inch wide. It had O'Neil's name in it and electrical diagrams dated 1908! There were all kinds of diagrams for generators, motors and other things. (The phone numbers in the notebook only had 5 digits in them!)
There was a Boy Scout Diary from 1910 and the Aviation Merit Badge showed a picture of the Wright Brothers' Airplane, The Flyer I, from 1903!
We found 2 Stradivarious Violins with Latin Writing on the inside and dated in 1609, if memory serves! I really don't know what ever happened to them or if they were real or not!
There was what appeared to be a Science Text book, copyright 1930, entitled "The Nature of the Universe and of Man". The Book said that "the Universe consists of the Milky Way Galaxy and its Nebulae". The Book was saying that there was only ONE Galaxy (our own) in the Universe and that Andromeda was merely a "Nebula" in our Galaxy! Today, we know that Andromeda is 2 million light-years away and is a separate Galaxy all its own. And that those 2 Galaxies are just 2 of some 200 BILLION known Galaxies in the Universe!
1930 was the year that Edwin Hubble proved that Andromeda was a separate Galxy but I suppose that took awhile to appear in textbooks!
One of the best movies I ever seen......
Cosmopolitan Productions, the company that produced this movie, was owned by William Randolph Hearst who desired to break out into the business of making movies. The Cosmopolitan Magazine belonged to his publishing franchise and took it's name from the production co. (per Wikipedia)
Fantastic film - so glad I found this!
I want to thank you for sharing this video . This is one of my favorites!
a good old movie for a cosy sunday afternoon :))
Many paths lead to the promised land.
Loretta Young was wonderful in every role she played. And WOW....what a looker.
What a gr8 man Alexander bell is 🤩🙏🏻. You made device which changed the human history 🙏🏻🙏🏻 hats of to you sir love from India 🇮🇳 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Wow! A young and handsome Don Ameche.
Thank you for your time and effort up loading this film !! These r treasurers not to b forgotten Michelle UK
Great movie and Don Ameche play the part very well and believable. This movie and many others like it should be shown the children of our country so they know invented the telephone which led to the cell phone.
Excellent movie !!!! I really liked it
Excellence in film. The bonus, our very own brilliant Mr.Bell, his story... a great American pioneer inventor. The telephone...and of course our dear friends across the pond being such an intricate part of the process. Dear Queen Victoria. The whole cast some of our best. Look how far we've come and the too familiar way of humanity...always having to deal with scoundrels.
I always thought he was scottish
I live close to Branford,Ont,Canada I visited his homestead,it’s interesting movie
Awesome! I will forever be a Cornball! I love these movies. Don Ameche, & Henry Fonda: What a pleasant surprise!
The number/ date 6-11, June 11 appeared earlier while looking up Vince Lombardi; Born June 11th!
And 6/18, June 18th is my son Christopher's birthday.
Anyway, Thanks for sharing this great movie! 🎥
Lovely film!
Than you for sharing it
Loretta Young was so beautiful and elegant 🌷
In the late 30s and 40s the slang word for the telephone was Ameche .. I get you on the Ameche as a tribute to Don for people tied him so close to Bell
Have you noticed that every great man ends up in court at the end of the movie, (and life)?
The court speech by Bell---is fantastic. Understand every word--and you will understand our demise because we ignore those words, (in school especially).
The greatness speaks at min 1:31:30
This is the kind of speech that saves mankind from communism.
I could not agree more!
And finally, 113 years later, the inventor identified as an Italian. (Essential principles.)
Wow,...the Young sisters were all beautiful young women.
You know those are just actresses, right?
@@grouchomarx4 No, they really were sisters in actual life. Loretta Young, Sally Blane, Polly Ann Young, and Georgiana Young were all siblings. Their mom was Gladys Belzer.
@@LPD15ponce Standing corrected. I thought you were talking about the characters they were playing.
Wonderful movie !!! I didn't know this happened to Bell!
Thanks for posting, OP!
Love the romance and the fact that truth prevailed. True love saved the day in bedroom and in court too, as the love letter proved.❤
DON AMECHE,the actor who also appeared in the movie COCOON.
Great speech at the end....Spot on.
On a scale of 1 to 10, this movies scores 100. Don Ameche, I'm sorry I spent so many years thinking of you as the character in Trading Places.
LOVE! Thanks for posting!!
Haven't seen this one in years. Love it still. -sandy-
Great hi-story, great cast, great film! Thank you✨
Thanks so much for the upload. Loved every minute of it, esp. because it was reportedly extremely true to the historical facts, which makes you feel like you are witnessing the actual development of and battle for the telephone. Ameche was superb (a bit of Jimmy Stewart in his voice and acting style). He also looked and acted exactly as he did 32 years later as the lawyer in Columbo's "Suitable for Framing." The minute I saw "Mr. Sanders" I recognized the face from somewhere but couldn't ID it, until I saw on IMDB that he was the mayor in "The Inspector General." Finally, when Alex is introduced to Mabel and her three sisters at 13:00, I was amazed at how they found actresses who really looked like her sisters. It turns out that all three were indeed Loretta Young's sisters in real life.
@Augustus Antonius I am aware of this. Indeed, the US Congress officially recognized Meucci as the true founder of the telephone (www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/17/humanities.internationaleducationnews). I was merely referring to Bell's invention development process, his family life and the role of his students, which they reportedly followed quite accurately. He was obviously a very talented inventor, who also invented other important technological inventions, even if he did base his initial telephone idea on something he saw on paper from Meucci. Plus, you can't depict something whose facts we don't know about.
Thank you for posting! ❤
thanks for this upload this is one movie I havent seen yet!
When this movie came out, many in America said that they knew that Don Ameche invented the telephone.
😊
Thanks to the Marx brothers
He didn't antonio meucci created the phone in 1850 or
Excellent!!! Great acting, Don and Loretta played so well off of each other. Tku for post.
Gotta love that authentic Scottish accent on Bell!
Och aye to that, fae Scotland.
That was a great movie about a great man. It was fun to se the first telefon-central, aand hear them say:"Ahoy" in sted of :"Hallo!", very entertaining and sweet film -
The end: What a "great" movie, to the deepest sense of the word.
Beautiful, well said. Amen