El gran milagro (1939)
Biopic sobre el inventor del teléfono -o considerado durante mucho tiempo como tal, pues parece ser que sólo fue el primero en patentarlo-. "El gran milagro" era una superproducción muy al gusto de Darryl F. Zanuck que comenzaba en el Boston de 1873 y culminaba con la invención del "artilugio de las palabras" tres años después. Entre medias había romance, superación personal y el juicio que se estableció entre la poderosa Western Union y Bell por los derechos de patente del invento.
Directora:
Irving Cummings
Escritor:
Lamar Trotti
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Don Ameche as Alexander Graham Bell |
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Loretta Young as Mrs. Mabel Hubbard Bell |
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Henry Fonda as Thomas Watson |
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Charles Coburn as Gardner Hubbard |
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Gene Lockhart as Thomas Sanders |
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Spring Byington as Mrs. Hubbard |
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Sally Blane as Gertrude Hubbard |
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Polly Ann Young as Grace Hubbard |
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Georgiana Young as Berta Hubbard |
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Bobs Watson as George Sanders |
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Russell Hicks as Mr. Barrows |
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Paul Stanton as Chauncey Smith |
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Jonathan Hale as President of Western Union |
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Harry Davenport as Judge Rider |
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Beryl Mercer as Queen Victoria |
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Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. MacGregor |
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Charles Trowbridge as George Pollard |
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Jan Duggan as Mrs. Winthrop |
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Claire Du Brey as Landlady |
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Harry Tyler as Joe Eliot |
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Ralph Remley as D'Arcy - Singer |
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Zeffie Tilbury as Mrs. Sanders |
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Jack Kelly as Banker's Son (uncredited) |
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Esther Brodelet as Telephone Operator |
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Tyler Brooke as Mr. Calhoun |
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Nora Cecil as Miss Jenkins |
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Davison Clark as Court Attendant at Door |
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Dick Elliott as Man Laughing at Demo |
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Edmund Elton as Banker at Demo |
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Fern Emmett as Mac Gregor's Maid |
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Mary Field as Piano Player |
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George Guhl as Mr. Winthrop |
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Otto Hoffman as Pawnbroker |
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Warren Jackson as Tom |
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Frank Jaquet as Edward |
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Sheldon Jett as New England Telephone Company Executive |
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Edward Keane as Banker at Demo |
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Crauford Kent as General |
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Edward LeSaint as Banker at Demonstration |
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Jarold Clifford Lyons as Infant |
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Dave Morris as Telegrapher |
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Ottola Nesmith as Nora |
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Ruth Robinson as Nurse |
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John Graham Spacey as Sir John Cowell |
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Landers Stevens as Manager of New England Telephone Exchange |
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Charles Tannen as Court Clerk |
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William Wagner as |
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Eddy Waller as Storekeeper |
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Jack Walsh as James J. Starrow |
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Lillian West as Sanders' Nurse |
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John Elliott as Banker at Demo |
| Directing | Irving Cummings | Director |
| Writing | Ray Harris | Story |
| Writing | Lamar Trotti | Screenplay |
| Production | Darryl F. Zanuck | Producer |
| Editing | Walter Thompson | Editor |
| Art | Richard Day | Art Direction |
| Art | Mark-Lee Kirk | Art Direction |
| Art | Thomas Little | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Royer | Costume Design |
| Camera | Leon Shamroy | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Ad Schaumer | Assistant Director |
| Production | Kenneth Macgowan | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Louis Silvers | Music Director |
| Sound | Ernst Toch | Original Music Composer |
