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Director:
Norman Taurog
Writers:
Hugo Butler (writer)
Bradbury Foote (writer)
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Release Date:
15 March 1940 (USA) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama more
Plot:
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Good account of Edison's life more

Cast

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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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Additional Details

Runtime:
86 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #5988)
Filming Locations:
California, USA more

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Spoofed in "Archie's Fun House: Really Big Caesar/Acrobats (#1.16)" (????) more
Soundtrack:
Sweet Genevieve more

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Good account of Edison's life, 20 August 2006
6/10
Author: leslie04 from United Kingdom

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.

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