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
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
