- HD 1080
- Runtime: 107m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Clarence Brown
- Stars: Spencer Tracy, Charles Coburn, Lynne Overman, Rita Johnson, Gene Lockhart
- keywords: historical figure, light bulb
- Production_studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Slogan: Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!
- The Edison, the Man is featured in the top rankings of 1940
- #24 in Top Drama Movies of 1940
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.