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Edison, the Man
“Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!”
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.
Release / first air1940-05-10
Original languageEN
GenresHistory, Drama
DirectorClarence Brown
WriterTalbot Jennings
BudgetNot available
RevenueNot available
ProductionMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast & Crew
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Spencer TracyThomas A. Edison
Charles CoburnGeneral Powell
Lynne OvermanBunt Cavatt
Rita JohnsonMary Stilwell
Gene LockhartMr. Taggart
Henry TraversBen Els
Felix BressartMichael Simon
Peter GodfreyAshton
Guy D'EnneryLundstrom
Byron FoulgerEdwin HallPart of the Collection
Edison Collection
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