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Young Tom Edison

1940, Movie, NR, 85 mins

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This entertaining biography about two years in the boyhood of Menlo Park inventor Thomas A. Edison is made thoroughly enjoyable due to an energetic performance by Mickey Rooney. Rooney brings warmth and vitality to the title role as he goes about upsetting other people's lives with his experiments. He is branded crazy by his parents, teachers, and peers, but, when his mother falls ill, his inquisitive mind comes up with the very trick the doctor needs to perform a delicate o... read more leave a comment
Mickey Rooney is Young Tom Edison (1940), defying authority to develop his first inventions.
Free | TCM

Posted: 8/1/2008
The teenage years of brilliant inventor Thomas Alva Edison as the young man troubles his family and his school teachers with his great quest for knowledge.
Paid | CinemaNow

Posted: 3/23/2009
Year: 1940
Rated NR

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Cast
Mickey Rooney: Tom Edison
Fay Bainter: Mrs. Samuel Edison
George Bancroft: Samuel Edison
Virginia Weidler: Tannie Edison
Eugene Pallette: Mr. Nelson
Victor Kilian: Mr. Dingle

 

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