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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.
Theatrical
May 10, 1940
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Cast
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Spencer Tracy
Thomas A. Edison
C
Charles Coburn
General Powell
L
Lynne Overman
Bunt Cavatt
R
Rita Johnson
Mary Stilwell
G
Gene Lockhart
Mr. Taggart
H
Henry Travers
Ben Els
F
Felix Bressart
Michael Simon
P
Peter Godfrey
Ashton
G
Guy D'Ennery
Lundstrom
B
Byron Foulger
Edwin Hall
M
Milton Parsons
'Acid' Graham
A
Arthur Aylesworth
Bigelow
G
Gene Reynolds
Jimmy Price
A
Addison Richards
Mr. Johnson
G
Grant Mitchell
Snade
P
Paul Hurst
Sheriff
G
George Lessey
Toastmaster
J
Jay Ward
John Schofield
A
Ann Gillis
Nancy Grey
E
Erville Alderson
First Lecturer
