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Edison, the Man (1940)

NR ★ 6.8/10 107 min History, Drama United States English
Screenplay by: Talbot Jennings, Bradbury Foote
Original Storys: Dore Schary, Hugo Butler
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Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!

Description

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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Top Cast

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

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