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Edison, the Man

Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!
May 10, 1940 · 1h 47m
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Drama

PLOT

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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CAST

Spencer Tracy
Thomas A. Edison
Charles Coburn
General Powell
Lynne Overman
Bunt Cavatt
Rita Johnson
Mary Stilwell
Gene Lockhart
Mr. Taggart
Henry Travers
Ben Els
Felix Bressart
Michael Simon
Peter Godfrey
Ashton
Directed by Clarence Brown

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
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Revenue
—
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country
US

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