Film · Drama, History
Edison, the Man (1940)
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.
- Director
- Clarence Brown
- Writers
- Talbot Jennings, Bradbury Foote, Dore Schary
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- May 10, 1940
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
Milton Parsons'Acid' Graham
Arthur AylesworthBigelow
Gene ReynoldsJimmy Price
Addison RichardsMr. Johnson
Grant MitchellSnade- Paul HurstSheriff
George LesseyToastmaster- Jay WardJohn Schofield
Ann GillisNancy Grey
Erville AldersonFirst Lecturer
