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 the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.

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  Spencer Tracy

  Thomas A. Edison
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  Charles Coburn

  General Powell
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  Lynne Overman

  Bunt Cavatt
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  Rita Johnson

  Mary Stilwell
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  Gene Lockhart

  Mr. Taggart
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  Henry Travers

  Ben Els
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  Felix Bressart

  Michael Simon
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  Peter Godfrey

  Ashton
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  Guy D'Ennery

  Lundstrom
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  Byron Foulger

  Edwin Hall