Edison, the Man

Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!

NR19401h 47m6.8Movie

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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 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

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