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Young Tom Edison
Directed by	Norman Taurog
Produced by	John W. Considine, Jr.
Written by	Hugo Butler Bradbury Foote Dore Schary
Starring	Mickey Rooney Fay Bainter George Bancroft
Release date(s)	March 15, 1940
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Young Tom Edison is a 1940 biographical film about the early life of inventor Thomas Edison, with Mickey Rooney in the title role.

Cast

Mickey Rooney as Thomas Edison
Fay Bainter as Nancy Edison
George Bancroft as Samuel Edison
Virginia Weidler as Tannie Edison
Eugene Pallette as Mr. Nelson
Victor Kilian as Mr. Dingle
Bobby Jordan as Joe Dingle (as Bobbie Jordan)
J. M. Kerrigan as Mr. McCarney
Lloyd Corrigan as Dr. Pender
John Kellogg as Bill Edison
Clem Bevans as Mr. Waddell
Spencer Tracy as Man Admiring Portrait of Thomas Edison (uncredited)

External links

Young Tom Edison at the TCM Movie Database
Young Tom Edison at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e The films of Norman Taurog

1920s	Lucky Boy • The Diplomats • In Holland • The Medicine Men

1930s	Troopers Three (with B. Reeves Eason) • Sunny Skies • Hot Curves • Follow the Leader • Finn and Hattie • Skippy • Newly Rich • Huckleberry Finn • Sooky • Hold 'Em Jail • The Phantom President • If I Had a Million (segments "Prologue" and "Epilogue") • A Bedtime Story • The Way to Love • We're Not Dressing • Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch • College Rhythm • The Big Broadcast of 1936 • Strike Me Pink • Rhythm on the Range • Reunion • Fifty Roads to Town • You Can't Have Everything • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • Mad About Music • Boys Town • The Girl Downstairs • Lucky Night

1940s	Broadway Melody of 1940 • Young Tom Edison • Little Nellie Kelly • Men of Boys Town • Design for Scandal • Are Husbands Necessary? • A Yank at Eton • Presenting Lily Mars • Girl Crazy (with Busby Berkley) • The Hoodlum Saint • The Beginning or the End • The Bride Goes Wild • Big City • Words and Music • That Midnight Kiss

1950s	Please Believe Me • The Toast of New Orleans • Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone • Rich, Young and Pretty • Room for One More • Jumping Jacks • The Stooge • The Stars Are Singing • The Caddy • Living It Up • You're Never Too Young • The Birds and the Bees • Pardners • Bundle of Joy • The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown • Onionhead • Don't Give Up the Ship

1960s	Visit to a Small Planet • G.I. Blues • All Hands on Deck • Blue Hawaii • Girls! Girls! Girls! • It Happened at the World's Fair • Palm Springs Weekend • Tickle Me • Sergeant Dead Head • Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine • Spinout • Double Trouble • Speedway • Live a Little, Love a Little

Television	Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954) (with Alan Handley, Christian Nyby, Roy Rowland, King Vidor, William A. Wellman and Bud Yorkin)

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Young Tom Edison

Young Tom Edison

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	Edison, The Man (1940 Drama Film)
	George Bancroft (Actor, Drama/Western)
	Thomas Alva Edison (Actor)

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