Edison, the Man

1940 "Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!"

Edison, the Man

7 | 1h47m | NR | en | Drama

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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7 | 1h47m | NR | en | Drama , History

Synopsis

Cast

Spencer Tracy , Charles Coburn , Lynne Overman

Director

Clarence Brown

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ,

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Cast

Spencer Tracy

as Thomas A. Edison

[1993] Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell [1991] Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' [1967] Guess Who's Coming to Dinner [1964] The Big Parade of Comedy [1963] It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World [1961] Judgment at Nuremberg [1961] The Devil at 4 O'Clock [1960] Inherit the Wind [1958] The Last Hurrah

Charles Coburn

as General Powell

[1963] Marilyn [1959] John Paul Jones [1957] Town on Trial [1957] How to Murder a Rich Uncle [1954] The Long Wait [1954] The Rocket Man [1953] Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [1953] Trouble Along the Way [1952] Monkey Business

Lynne Overman

as Bunt Cavatt

[1943] The Desert Song [1943] Dixie [1942] Reap the Wild Wind [1942] Silver Queen [1942] Roxie Hart [1942] The Forest Rangers [1941] Aloma of the South Seas [1941] Caught in the Draft [1940] Edison, the Man