Edison, the Man (1940)
Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!
107 min
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.
- Release date
- May 10, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Spencer Tracy as Thomas A. Edison
- Rita Johnson as Mary Stilwell
- Lynne Overman as James G. 'Bunt' Cavatt
- Charles Coburn as General Powell
- Gene Lockhart as Mr. Taggart
- Henry Travers as Ben Els
- Felix Bressart as Michael Simon
- Peter Godfrey as Ashton
- Guy D'Ennery as Lundstrom
- Byron Foulger as Edwin Hall
Crew
- Clarence Brown · Director
- Talbot Jennings · Writer
- Bradbury Foote · Writer
- Dore Schary · Writer
- Hugo Butler · Writer
- Clarence Brown · Producer
- John W. Considine Jr. · Producer
- Herbert Stothart · Composer
- Harold Rosson · Cinematographer
- Fredrick Y. Smith · Editor