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Edison, the Man (1940)

NR 05/10/1940 History, Drama 1h 47m
66%
User
Score
7.0/10
80%

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.

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Screenplay

Clarence Brown

Director

Talbot Jennings

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Top Billed 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

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Media

Edison the Man - Trailer

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