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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Cast
- Spencer TracyThomas A. Edison
- Charles CoburnGeneral Powell
- Lynne OvermanBunt Cavatt
- Rita JohnsonMary Stilwell
- Gene LockhartMr. Taggart
- Henry TraversBen Els
- Felix BressartMichael Simon
- Peter GodfreyAshton
- Guy D'EnneryLundstrom
- Byron FoulgerEdwin Hall
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- Clarence BrownDirector
- Talbot JenningsScreenplay
- Bradbury FooteScreenplay
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