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.
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
- Henry Travers as Ben Els
- Felix Bressart as Michael Simon
- Peter Godfrey as Ashton
- Guy D'Ennery as Lundstrom
- Byron Foulger as Edwin Hall