Edison, the Man

Name: Edison, the Man
Director: Clarence Brown
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 1940-05-10
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Charles Coburn, Lynne Overman, Rita Johnson, Gene Lockhart

“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.