Young Tom Edison
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Young Tom Edison is a 1940
1940 in film
The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney classics Pinocchio and Fantasia.-Events:*February 7 - Walt Disney's animated film Pinocchio is released....

 biographical film
Biographical film
A biographical film, or biopic , is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films “based on a true story” or “historical films” in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s life story or at least the most historically important years of their...

 about the early life of inventor Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial...

, with Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has won multiple awards, including an Honorary Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award...

 in the title role.

Cast

  • Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has won multiple awards, including an Honorary Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award...

     as Thomas Edison
  • Fay Bainter
    Fay Bainter
    Fay Okell Bainter was an American film and stage actress.-Early life:She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Charles F. Bainter and Mary Okell. In 1910, she was a traveling stage actress...

     as Nancy Edison
  • George Bancroft
    George Bancroft (actor)
    George Bancroft was an American Hollywood film actor of the 1920s and '30s.-Biography:Bancroft was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1882. During his early days as a sailor he staged plays on board ship. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy, but left the Navy to become a "black...

     as Samuel Edison
  • Virginia Weidler
    Virginia Weidler
    Virginia Weidler was an American child actress, popular in Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life and career:...

     as Tannie Edison
  • Eugene Pallette
    Eugene Pallette
    Eugene William Pallette was an American actor. He appeared in over 240 silent era and sound era motion pictures between 1913 and 1946....

     as Mr. Nelson
  • Victor Kilian
    Victor Kilian
    Victor Arthur Kilian was an American actor who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s....

     as Mr. Dingle
  • Bobby Jordan
    Bobby Jordan
    Robert "Bobby" Jordan was an American actor, born in Harrison, New York, most notable for being a member of the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys.-Early life and career:...

     as Joe Dingle (as Bobbie Jordan)
  • J. M. Kerrigan
    J. M. Kerrigan
    Joseph Michael Kerrigan , better known as J. M. Kerrigan, born in Dublin, Ireland, was an Irish character actor.-Life:Kerrigan worked as a newspaper reporter until 1907 when he joined the famous Abbey Players...

     as Mr. McCarney
  • Lloyd Corrigan
    Lloyd Corrigan
    Lloyd Corrigan was an American film actor, producer, screenwriter and director who began working in films in the 1920s...

     as Dr. Pender
  • John Kellogg
    John Kellogg (actor)
    John Kellogg was an American actor in film, stage and television. Some sources, including ancestry.com, state that his given name was Giles Vernon Kellogg, Jr....

     as Bill Edison
  • Clem Bevans
    Clem Bevans
    Clem Bevans was a character actor best remembered for playing eccentric, grumpy old men.Bevans had a very long career, starting in vaudeville in 1900 in an act with Grace Emmett. He progressed to burlesque, Broadway, and even light opera, before making his film debut at the age of 55 in Way Down...

     as Mr. Waddell
  • Harry Shannon
    Harry Shannon
    Harry Shannon is an American novelist, songwriter and entertainer. He was born Harry Rivard Siebert in Reno, Nevada, to Dr. William L. Siebert and Belle Elizabeth Cazier. He has a brother, Dwight Siebert, and a sister, Marsha Desiderio. Shannon was married from 1978 to 1988 to Swiss singer...

     as Army Captain Brackett
  • Spencer Tracy
    Spencer Tracy
    Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 75 films from 1930 to 1967. Tracy was one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, ranking among the top ten box office draws for almost every year from 1938 to 1951...

    as Man Admiring Portrait of Thomas Edison (uncredited)
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