Edison, the Man
Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!
Rating: 6.8 out of 10TMDB(29 votes)
Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the Oscar for Best Story (1941)
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Setting
Set in New Jersey
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Collection
Part of Edison Collection
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Music
Music by Herbert Stothart
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Harold Rosson
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Talbot JenningsScreenplay
- Bradbury FooteScreenplay
- Dore ScharyOriginal Story
- Hugo ButlerOriginal Story
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 10, 1940
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Collection
- Edison Collection
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In the United States
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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
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