
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.

Spencer Tracy
Thomas A. Edison

Charles Coburn
General Powell

Lynne Overman
Bunt Cavatt

Rita Johnson
Mary Stilwell


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May 10, 1940
1h 47m
6.8
Clarence Brown
Talbot Jennings, Bradbury Foote
27


Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
US

Gene Lockhart
Mr. Taggart

Henry Travers
Ben Els

Felix Bressart
Michael Simon

Peter Godfrey
Ashton

Guy D'Ennery
Lundstrom

Byron Foulger
Edwin Hall
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