Edison, the Man
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 invention of an early form of stock market ticker.
Clarence Brown
Casts & Crew
Spencer Tracy
Charles Coburn
Lynne Overman
Rita Johnson
Gene Lockhart
Henry Travers
Felix Bressart
Peter Godfrey
Guy D'Ennery
Byron Foulger
Milton Parsons
Arthur Aylesworth
Gene Reynolds
Addison Richards
Grant Mitchell
Paul Hurst
George Lessey
Jay Ward
Ann Gillis
Erville Alderson
William Arnold
Hooper Atchley
Irving Bacon
Arthur Belasco
Edward Biby
Billy Bletcher
Harry C. Bradley
Harlan Briggs
Fritzi Brunette
John Butler
James Carlisle
George Chandler
Howard Chase
James Conaty
Jimmy Conlin
Nick Copeland
Maurice Costello
Nell Craig
Jack Daley
Edgar Dearing
Helen Dickson
John Dilson
Donald Douglas
Edward Earle
Frank Faylen
Walter Fenner
Eddie Gribbon
Hale Hamilton
Sam Harris
Edward Hearn
Arthur Stuart Hull
Harry Humphrey
Edward Keane
Eve Kendall
Milton Kibbee
Charles Lane
Edward LeSaint
Wilfred Lucas
Tom Mahoney
Eric Mayne
Ralph McCullough
George Meader
Harold Minjir
Bruce Mitchell
Hans Moebus
Edmund Mortimer
Forbes Murray
Louis Natheaux
Alex Novinsky
William H. O'Brien
George Ovey
Thomas Pogue
Alexander Pollard
Cyril Ring
Count Stefenelli
Harry Strang
Jackie Taylor
Charles Trowbridge
Emmett Vogan
Charles Waldron
Frank Whitbeck
Joe Whitehead
Lloyd Whitlock
Robert Winkler
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