Edison, the Man (1940)

"Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!"

6.8 May 10, 1940 1h 47m Released
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In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.

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Cast

  • Spencer Tracy

    Spencer Tracy

    Thomas A. Edison

  • Charles Coburn

    Charles Coburn

    General Powell

  • Lynne Overman

    Lynne Overman

    Bunt Cavatt

  • Rita Johnson

    Rita Johnson

    Mary Stilwell

  • Gene Lockhart

    Gene Lockhart

    Mr. Taggart

  • Henry Travers

    Henry Travers

    Ben Els

  • Felix Bressart

    Felix Bressart

    Michael Simon

  • Peter Godfrey

    Peter Godfrey

    Ashton

  • Guy D'Ennery

    Guy D'Ennery

    Lundstrom

  • Byron Foulger

    Byron Foulger

    Edwin Hall

  • Milton Parsons

    Milton Parsons

    'Acid' Graham

  • Arthur Aylesworth

    Arthur Aylesworth

    Bigelow

  • Gene Reynolds

    Gene Reynolds

    Jimmy Price

  • Addison Richards

    Addison Richards

    Mr. Johnson

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