Edison, the Man

May 10, 1940

1h 47m

★ 6.6

Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!

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.

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Edison, the Man Trailers

Cast

Thomas A. Edison

Spencer Tracy

General Powell

Charles Coburn

Bunt Cavatt

Lynne Overman

Mary Stilwell

Rita Johnson

Mr. Taggart

Gene Lockhart

Ben Els

Henry Travers

Michael Simon

Felix Bressart

Ashton

Peter Godfrey

Lundstrom

Guy D'Ennery

Edwin Hall

Byron Foulger

'Acid' Graham

Milton Parsons

Bigelow

Arthur Aylesworth

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