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.

Top Cast

Spencer Tracy

Thomas A. Edison

Charles Coburn

General Powell

Lynne Overman

Bunt Cavatt

Rita Johnson

Mary Stilwell

Gene Lockhart

Mr. Taggart

Henry Travers

Ben Els

Felix Bressart

Michael Simon

Peter Godfrey

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