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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.

"Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!"


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Spencer Tracy

Thomas A. Edison


Charles Coburn

General Powell


Lynne Overman

Bunt Cavatt


Rita Johnson

Mary Stilwell


Gene Lockhart

Mr. Taggart


Felix Bressart

Michael Simon


Guy D'Ennery

Lundstrom

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