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    Young Tom Edison

    1940 · Biography · 1h 22m

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  1. 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. Edison, the Man, starring Spencer Tracy, followed two months later, completing the two-part ...

  2. 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.

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    • Biography, Drama, Family
    • Norman Taurog
    • 1940-03-15
  3. Synopsis. In the early 1860's, in the town of Port Huron, Michigan, young Tom Edison is misunderstood by everyone except his mother Nancy and sister Tannie. When Tom accidentally sets off a smoke bomb in the school house cloakroom, his narrow-minded teacher, Miss Lavina Howard, calls him addled and expels him from school.

    • Norman Taurog, William Ryan
    • Mickey Rooney
  4. Young Tom Edison (1940) Young Tom Edison (1940) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis During the 1860s, Tom Edison (Mickey Rooney) is a precocious boy with a penchant for mischief.

    • (11)
    • Emanuel Levy
    • Biography
    • Norman Taurog
  5. Miss Lavina Howard, School Teacher. Harry Shannon. ... Army Captain Brackett. Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Ernie Adams. ... Passenger Buying Maple Sugar (uncredited) Maude Allen.

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  7. Young Tom Edison. 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. 275IMDb 6.81 h 25 min1940. X-Ray13+. Documentary · Drama.

  8. Overview. Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who ...

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