Released:
1940-05-10

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.

Director:
Clarence Brown

Runtime:
1h 47min

Genre:
History, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Spencer Tracy
  as
  Thomas A. Edison
• 
  Charles Coburn
  as
  General Powell
• 
  Lynne Overman
  as
  Bunt Cavatt
• 
  Rita Johnson
  as
  Mary Stilwell
• 
  Gene Lockhart
  as
  Mr. Taggart