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.

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Cast

Spencer Tracy

Charles Coburn

Lynne Overman

Rita Johnson

Gene Lockhart

Henry Travers

Felix Bressart

Peter Godfrey

Guy D'Ennery

Byron Foulger