Edison, the Man

May. 10,1940      NR
Rating:
7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Spencer Tracy as  Thomas A. Edison
Charles Coburn as  General Powell
Lynne Overman as  Bunt Cavatt
Rita Johnson as  Mary Stilwell
Gene Lockhart as  Mr. Taggart
Henry Travers as  Ben Els
Felix Bressart as  Michael Simon
Peter Godfrey as  Ashton
Guy D'Ennery as  Lundstrom
Byron Foulger as  Edwin Hall

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