Edison, the Man (1940)
05/10/1940 (US) • 1h 47m
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.
Top Billed Cast
Thomas A. Edison
General Powell
Bunt Cavatt
Mary Stilwell
Mr. Taggart
Ben Els
Michael Simon
Ashton
Lundstrom
Part of the Edison Collection
Includes Young Tom Edison, Edison, the Man
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