"Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!" 10 May 1940 Drama, History 107 mins
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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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
Henry Travers as Ben Els
Felix Bressart as Michael Simon
Peter Godfrey as Ashton
Guy D'Ennery as Lundstrom
Byron Foulger as Edwin Hall
Milton Parsons as 'Acid' Graham
Arthur Aylesworth as Bigelow
Gene Reynolds as Jimmy Price
Addison Richards as Mr. Johnson
Grant Mitchell as Snade
Paul Hurst as Sheriff
Clarence Brown Director
Talbot Jennings Screenplay
Bradbury Foote Screenplay
Dore Schary Original Story
Hugo Butler Original Story
Herbert Stothart Music
Эдисон, человек Trailer
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Sweden 02 April 1941
United States 10 May 1940
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Academy Award-winner Spencer Tracy ("Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde") stars in this Oscar-nominated biography of Thomas Edison ...
Last scene from the film Edison the man where Spencer Tracy works the electric light for the first time.
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Ever since I was a curious kid I wondered what the sound was coming out of whatever Edison's assistant was working on. Well today I found out by slowing the ...
La invención del fonógrafo. Fragmento de "Edison the man" 1940.
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