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1940
  • Drama
  • History

Edison, the Man

Spencer tracy's greatest performance!
Runtime
1h 47m
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  • US
  • United States
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Languages
  • en
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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Bradbury Foote
Screenplay
Clarence Brown
Director
Talbot Jennings
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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
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  • Status
    Released
  • Release date
    May 10, 1940
  • Original Language
    English
  • Production Companies
    • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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