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Description: 82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.

Cast:
Thomas A. Edison: Spencer Tracy
Mary Stilwell: Rita Johnson
James G. 'Bunt' Cavatt: Lynne Overman
General Powell: Charles Coburn
Mr. Taggart: Gene Lockhart
Ben Els: Henry Travers
Michael Simon: Felix Bressart
Ashton: Peter Godfrey
Lundstrom: Guy D'Ennery
Edwin Hall: Byron Foulger
'Acid' Graham: Milton Parsons
Jack Bigelow: Arthur Aylesworth
Jimmy Price: Gene Reynolds
Mr. Johnson: Addison Richards
Snade: Grant Mitchell
Sheriff: Irving Bacon
Toastmaster: George Lessey
John Schofield: Jay Ward
Nancy Grey: Ann Gillis
First Lecturer: Erville Alderson
Assistant: Philo McCullough
Minor Role: Joe Whitehead
Broker: Lloyd Whitlock
General Powell's Nurse: Barbara Bedford
Party Guest: Count Stefenelli
Reporter: Cyril Ring
Preacher: Harry C. Bradley
Bisbee: Harlan Briggs
Mechanic: John Butler
Gold Exchange Clerk: George Chandler
Waiter: William H. O'Brien
Woman: Nell Craig
Policeman: Tom Mahoney
Jordan: Donald Douglas
Galbreath: Frank Faylen
Man at Banquet: Walter Fenner
Spectator at Testimonial: Bess Flowers
Cashier: Eddie Gribbon
Lecturer: Edward Keane
Marion Estelle Edison: Eve Kendall
Workman: Milton Kibbee
Second Lecturer: Charles Lane
Doctor: Edward LeSaint
Spectator at Alderman Meeting: Carl M. Leviness
Minister: George Meader
Blair: Harold Minjir
Coachman: Bruce Mitchell
Lamplighter: George Ovey
Butler: Alexander Pollard
Clark: Charles Trowbridge
Secretary: Emmett Vogan
First Commissioner: Charles Waldron
Trailer Narrator: Frank Whitbeck
Newsboy: Robert Winkler

Written by: Talbot Jennings, Bradbury Foote, Dore Schary

Director: Clarence Brown

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Release date: 10 May 1940