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Edison, the Man

Edison, the Man

Edison Collection

Clarence Brown

1940

  • History
  • Drama
6.8

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.

Cast & crew

  • Clarence BrownDirector
  • Spencer TracyThomas A. Edison
  • Charles CoburnGeneral Powell
  • Lynne OvermanBunt Cavatt
  • Rita JohnsonMary Stilwell
  • Gene LockhartMr. Taggart
  • Henry TraversBen Els
  • Felix BressartMichael Simon
  • Peter GodfreyAshton

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