Release Date

10 May, 1940

Runtime

01:47: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

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Actors

Spencer Tracy

Charles Coburn

Lynne Overman

Rita Johnson

Gene Lockhart

Henry Travers

Felix Bressart

Peter Godfrey

Guy D'Ennery

Byron Foulger

Milton Parsons

Arthur Aylesworth

Gene Reynolds

Addison Richards

Grant Mitchell

Paul Hurst

George Lessey

Jay Ward

Ann Gillis

Erville Alderson

William Arnold

Crew

Bradbury Foote

Clarence Brown

Hugo Butler

Dore Schary

Talbot Jennings

Herbert Stothart