Young Tom Edison
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| Young Tom Edison | |
|---|---|
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| 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 |
| Music by | Edward Ward |
| Cinematography | Sidney Wagner |
| Editing by | Elmo Veron |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release dates | 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
- Harry Shannon as Army Captain Brackett
- Spencer Tracy as Man Admiring Portrait of Thomas Edison (uncredited)
Reception
Upon the film's release Rooney had his picture on the cover of the March 18, 1940 issue of Time; Time called Rooney "a rope-haired, kazoo-voiced kid with a comic-strip face, who until this week had never appeared in a picture without mugging or overacting it."[1] The magazine said the film featured Rooney's "most sober and restrained performance to date, [of someone] who (like himself) began at the bottom of the American heap, (like himself) had to struggle, (like himself) won, but a boy whose main activity (unlike Mickey's) was investigating, inventing, thinking."[2]
References
- ↑ "Cinema: Success Story". Time. March 18, 1940. Retrieved 2013-09-16. "Hollywood's No. 1 box office bait in 1939 was not Clark Gable, Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power, but a rope-haired, kazoo-voiced kid with a comic-strip face, who until this week had never appeared in a picture without mugging or overacting it. His name (assumed) was Mickey Rooney, and to a large part of the more articulate U. S. cinemaudience, his name was becoming a frequently used synonym for brat."
- ↑ "Young Tom Edison (1940)". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2013-09-16. "Time put Rooney on the cover, noting that his movies had grossed a whopping $30 million for MGM the previous year and praising him for 'his most sober and restrained performance to date' as young Edison, 'who (like himself) began at the bottom of the American heap, (like himself) had to struggle, (like himself) won, but a boy whose main activity (unlike Mickey's) was investigating, inventing, thinking.'"
External links
- Young Tom Edison at the TCM Movie Database
- Young Tom Edison at the Internet Movie Database
- Young Tom Edison at allmovie
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