“EDISON, THE MAN.”
SPENCER TRACY IN INSPIRING STORY. Once more illustrating the fact that truth is stranger and more dramatic than fiction, “Edison, the Man,” filmisation of the career of Thomas A. Edison has Spencer Tracy in the starring role. Biographies have proved among the most popular offerings in Hollywood history during the past few years and the story of Edison is replete with dramatic events which are so thrilling they might be considered the product of a fiction writer’s mind. The picture affords Tracy with yet another great real-life role to add to the others with which he has won acting acclaim. Every background in this picture is authentic to the smallest detail and all of Edison’s early inventions were accurately reproduced to a point where they actually operated as.they did in Edison’s day.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 88, 24 January 1942, Page 3
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