Edison, the Man

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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  Clarence Brown

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  Spencer Tracy
  Thomas A. Edison
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  Charles Coburn
  General Powell
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  Lynne Overman
  Bunt Cavatt
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  Rita Johnson
  Mary Stilwell
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  Gene Lockhart
  Mr. Taggart
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  Henry Travers
  Ben Els
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  Felix Bressart
  Michael Simon
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  Peter Godfrey
  Ashton
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  Guy D'Ennery
  Lundstrom
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  Byron Foulger
  Edwin Hall
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  Milton Parsons
  'Acid' Graham
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  Arthur Aylesworth
  Bigelow
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  Gene Reynolds
  Jimmy Price
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  Addison Richards
  Mr. Johnson
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  Grant Mitchell
  Snade
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  Paul Hurst
  Sheriff
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  George Lessey
  Toastmaster
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  Jay Ward
  John Schofield
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  Ann Gillis
  Nancy Grey
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  Erville Alderson
  First Lecturer