

NR1h 47m1940
Edison, the Man
“Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!”
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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.
- Director
- Clarence Brown
- Writers
- Dore Schary, Bradbury Foote, Hugo Butler
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
- Release date
- 10 May 1940
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Spencer Tracy
Thomas A. Edison

Charles Coburn
General Powell

Lynne Overman
Bunt Cavatt

Rita Johnson
Mary Stilwell

Gene Lockhart
Mr. Taggart

Henry Travers
Ben Els

Felix Bressart
Michael Simon

Peter Godfrey
Ashton

Guy D'Ennery
Lundstrom

Byron Foulger
Edwin Hall

Milton Parsons
'Acid' Graham

Arthur Aylesworth
Bigelow
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