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15 March 1940 (USA) morePlot:
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Good account of Edison's life moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Mickey Rooney | ... | Thomas Alva 'Tom' Edison |
 | Fay Bainter | ... | Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison |
| George Bancroft | ... | Samuel 'Sam' Edison |
| Virginia Weidler | ... | Tannie Edison |
| Eugene Pallette | ... | Mr. Nelson |
| Victor Kilian | ... | Mr. Dingle |
| Bobby Jordan | ... | Joe 'Joey' Dingle (as Bobbie Jordan) |
| J.M. Kerrigan | ... | Mr. McCarney |
| Lloyd Corrigan | ... | Dr. Pender |
| John Kellogg | ... | Bill Edison |
| Clem Bevans | ... | Mr. Waddell |
| Eily Malyon | ... | Miss Lavina Howard, School Teacher |
| Harry Shannon | ... | Army Captain Brackett |
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The first of the two-picture Edison biography released by MGM in 1940, the second called 'Edison the man' Edison then portrayed by Spencer Tracy, this Mickey Rooney is playing the title role.
The film goes through chronically Edison's boyhood and early inventions and scientific interests, the picture shows how Edison was misunderstood in his child hood and was classed as different.
The film has many memorable scenes one a fire in school which Edison sets fire to school, another when he messes around with a telegraph system making everyone believe there is an attack of Indians.
Unfortuantly for my realism brain the film wasn't hugely satisfying, the second is said to be more dramatically satisfying. The name of John Considine Jr's associate producer on both pictures was (fair warning) O.O.Dull.