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1940

Edison, the Man

Directed by Clarence Brown
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.

Duration

1h 47m

Released

May 10, 1940

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6.8

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Cast83

  • Spencer Tracy
  • Charles Coburn
  • Lynne Overman
  • Rita Johnson
  • Gene Lockhart
  • Henry Travers
  • Felix Bressart
  • Peter Godfrey
  • Guy D'Ennery

Part ofThe Edison Collection

Includes Young Tom Edison (1940), and Edison, the Man (1940).

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