Edison, the Man
Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!
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
Trailer
Cast
Charles Lane
Second Lecturer
George Lessey
Toastmaster
Irving Bacon
Sheriff
Milton Kibbee
Workman
George Meader
Minister
Addison Richards
Mr. Johnson
Charles Coburn
General Powell
Erville Alderson
First Lecturer
Billy Bletcher
Reporter
Edgar Dearing
Policeman
Harry C. Bradley
Preacher
Fritzi Brunette
Minor Role
Maurice Costello
Broker
William H. O'Brien
Waiter
Charles Trowbridge
Clark
Grant Mitchell
Snade
Jimmy Conlin
Waiter
Hale Hamilton
Broker
Spencer Tracy
Thomas A. Edison
Harry Humphrey
Broker
Gene Reynolds
Jimmy Price
Forbes Murray
Broker
Ann Gillis
Nancy Grey
George Ovey
Lamplighter
Lloyd Whitlock
Broker
Edward Keane
Lecturer
Louis Natheaux
Broker
Harry Strang
Minor Role
Guy D'Ennery
Lundstrom
Paul Hurst
Sheriff
Walter Fenner
Man at Banquet
Emmett Vogan
Secretary
Edward Earle
Broker
Eddie Gribbon
Cashier
Arthur Stuart Hull
Broker
Lynne Overman
Bunt Cavatt
Peter Godfrey
Ashton
Nell Craig
Woman
John Dilson
Broker
Wilfred Lucas
Broker
Henry Travers
Ben Els
Felix Bressart
Michael Simon
Gene Lockhart
Mr. Taggart
Byron Foulger
Edwin Hall
Hooper Atchley
Broker
Harlan Briggs
Bisbee
Edward LeSaint
Doctor
Eric Mayne
Party Guest
Harold Minjir
Blair
Milton Parsons
'Acid' Graham
George Chandler
Gold Exchange Clerk
Frank Faylen
Galbreath
Edward Hearn
Broker
Cyril Ring
Reporter
Arthur Aylesworth
Bigelow
Rita Johnson
Mary Stilwell
Donald Douglas
Jordan