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Edison, the Man

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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.

Date: 05/10/1940

Rating: 6.7

Cast: 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, Hooper Atchley, Irving Bacon, Arthur Belasco, Edward Biby, Billy Bletcher, Harry C. Bradley, Harlan Briggs, Fritzi Brunette, John Butler, James Carlisle, George Chandler, Howard Chase, James Conaty, Jimmy Conlin, Nick Copeland, Maurice Costello, Nell Craig, Jack Daley, Edgar Dearing, Helen Dickson, John Dilson, Donald Douglas, Edward Earle, Frank Faylen, Walter Fenner, Eddie Gribbon, Hale Hamilton, Sam Harris, Edward Hearn, Arthur Stuart Hull, Harry Humphrey, Edward Keane, Eve Kendall, Milton Kibbee, Charles Lane, Edward LeSaint, Wilfred Lucas, Tom Mahoney, Eric Mayne, Ralph McCullough, George Meader, Harold Minjir, Bruce Mitchell, Hans Moebus, Edmund Mortimer, Forbes Murray, Louis Natheaux, Alex Novinsky, William H. O'Brien, George Ovey, Thomas Pogue, Alexander Pollard, Cyril Ring, Count Stefenelli, Harry Strang, Charles Trowbridge, Emmett Vogan, Charles Waldron, Frank Whitbeck, Joe Whitehead, Lloyd Whitlock, Robert Winkler

Spencer Tracy