The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Country: US
Technical: bw 97m
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Loretta Young
Synopsis:
The future inventor of the telephone begins teaching the deaf to communicate in this Fox biopic, and later falls foul of competitors.
Review:
Hollywoodized treatment of success and adversity, with a beautiful actress waiting patiently in the wings. Fulfilling the moguls' self-imposed task of educating the masses, then, it does a good job but on its own terms: for years afterwards Americans referred to the appliance as 'the Ameche'.
Country: US
Technical: bw 97m
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Loretta Young
Synopsis:
The future inventor of the telephone begins teaching the deaf to communicate in this Fox biopic, and later falls foul of competitors.
Review:
Hollywoodized treatment of success and adversity, with a beautiful actress waiting patiently in the wings. Fulfilling the moguls' self-imposed task of educating the masses, then, it does a good job but on its own terms: for years afterwards Americans referred to the appliance as 'the Ameche'.
Country: US
Technical: bw 97m
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Loretta Young
Synopsis:
The future inventor of the telephone begins teaching the deaf to communicate in this Fox biopic, and later falls foul of competitors.
Review:
Hollywoodized treatment of success and adversity, with a beautiful actress waiting patiently in the wings. Fulfilling the moguls' self-imposed task of educating the masses, then, it does a good job but on its own terms: for years afterwards Americans referred to the appliance as 'the Ameche'.