Edison, the Man
movie
Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!
Released May 10, 1940
Overview
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.
Cast
Spencer Tracy
as
Thomas A. Edison
Charles Coburn
as
General Powell
Lynne Overman
as
Bunt Cavatt
Rita Johnson
as
Mary Stilwell
Gene Lockhart
as
Mr. Taggart
Henry Travers
as
Ben Els
Felix Bressart
as
Michael Simon
Peter Godfrey
as
Ashton
Guy D'Ennery
as
Lundstrom
Byron Foulger
as
Edwin Hall
Milton Parsons
as
'Acid' Graham
Arthur Aylesworth
as
Bigelow
