Edison, the Man Poster

Edison, the Man

Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Charles Coburn, Lynne Overman, Rita Johnson, Gene Lockhart

Writer: Hugo Butler, Talbot Jennings, Dore Schary, Bradbury Foote

Release Date:
May 10, 1940
Ratings:
6.8 / 10
Director:
Clarence Brown
Companies:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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.