Cast
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.
Spencer Tracy (Acting)
Charles Coburn (Acting)
Lynne Overman (Acting)
Rita Johnson (Acting)
Gene Lockhart (Acting)
Henry Travers (Acting)
Felix Bressart (Acting)
Peter Godfrey (Directing)
Guy D'Ennery (Acting)
Byron Foulger (Acting)
Milton Parsons (Acting)
Arthur Aylesworth (Acting)
Gene Reynolds (Acting)
Addison Richards (Acting)
Grant Mitchell (Acting)
Paul Hurst (Acting)
George Lessey (Acting)
Ann Gillis (Acting)
Erville Alderson (Acting)
Hooper Atchley (Acting)
Irving Bacon (Acting)
Billy Bletcher (Acting)
Harry C. Bradley (Acting)
Harlan Briggs (Acting)
Fritzi Brunette (Acting)
George Chandler (Acting)
Jimmy Conlin (Acting)
Maurice Costello (Acting)
Nell Craig (Acting)
Edgar Dearing (Acting)
John Dilson (Acting)
Donald Douglas (Acting)
Edward Earle (Acting)
Frank Faylen (Acting)
Walter Fenner (Acting)
Eddie Gribbon (Acting)
Hale Hamilton (Acting)
Edward Hearn (Acting)
Arthur Stuart Hull (Acting)
Harry Humphrey (Acting)
Edward Keane (Acting)
Milton Kibbee (Acting)
Charles Lane (Acting)
Edward LeSaint (Acting)
Wilfred Lucas (Acting)
Eric Mayne (Acting)
George Meader (Acting)
Harold Minjir (Acting)
Forbes Murray (Acting)
Louis Natheaux (Acting)
William H. O'Brien (Acting)
George Ovey (Acting)
Cyril Ring (Acting)
Harry Strang (Acting)
Charles Trowbridge (Acting)
Emmett Vogan (Acting)
Charles Waldron (Acting)
Lloyd Whitlock (Acting)
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6 May 2011
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17 January 1908
1 May 2025
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