Edison, the Man
Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!
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Overview
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.
Cast
Spencer TracyThomas A. Edison
Charles CoburnGeneral Powell
Lynne OvermanBunt Cavatt
Rita JohnsonMary Stilwell
Gene LockhartMr. Taggart
Henry TraversBen Els
Felix BressartMichael Simon
Peter GodfreyAshton
Guy D'EnneryLundstrom
Byron FoulgerEdwin Hall
Milton Parsons'Acid' Graham
Arthur AylesworthBigelowCrew
DirectorClarence Brown
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Release DateMay 10, 1940
LanguagesEnglish
StudiosMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
