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Young Tom Edison is a 1940 biographical film about the early life of inventor Thomas Edison directed by Norman Taurog and starring Mickey Rooney. The film was the first of a complementary pair of Edison biopics that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released in 1940.
Young Tom Edison: Directed by Norman Taurog. With Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Virginia Weidler. Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up with disastrous results.
- (1.3K)
- Biography, Drama, Family
- Norman Taurog
- 1940-03-15
MGM concocted Young Tom Edison during Hollywood's great biopic bonanza of 1939 and 1940, which poured forth a wide range of movies - from Jesse James and The Story of Alexander Graham Bell to Stanley and Livingstone and Young Mr. Lincoln - about people whose fame or infamy had made them
- Norman Taurog, William Ryan
- Mickey Rooney
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During the 1860s, Tom Edison (Mickey Rooney) is a precocious boy with a penchant for mischief. After setting off a smoke bomb, he is expelled from his school to the dismay of his...
- (11)
- Emanuel Levy
- Biography
- Norman Taurog
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. 278 IMDb 6.8 1 h 25 min 1940. X-Ray 13+. Documentary · Drama. Available to rent or buy.
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Jul 8, 2014 · In this tale of Edison’s youth, Tom’s scientific curiosity and experiments gone wrong are subjects of scorn in his hometown…and in his family. Tom shows heroism in the face of great danger ...
- 31 sec
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- Warner Bros.
