Edison, the Man (1940)
Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!
1940 · NR · 1h 47m · History, Drama
Genres: History, Drama
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.
Director: Clarence Brown
Writers: Bradbury Foote, Talbot Jennings
Music by: Herbert Stothart
Part of the Edison franchise.
Cast
Spencer Tracy as Thomas A. EdisonCharles Coburn as General PowellLynne Overman as Bunt CavattRita Johnson as Mary StilwellGene Lockhart as Mr. TaggartHenry Travers as Ben ElsFelix Bressart as Michael SimonPeter Godfrey as AshtonGuy D'Ennery as LundstromByron Foulger as Edwin HallMilton Parsons as 'Acid' GrahamArthur Aylesworth as BigelowMore like this
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