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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