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Edison, the Man

Directed by Clarence Brown

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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.

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Thomas A. Edison

General Powell

Bunt Cavatt

Mary Stilwell

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Talbot Jennings

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Edison, the Man is about 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 directed Edison, the Man.

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