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Madame Curie (1943)
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Overview
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie’s lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Length 124 minutes
Actors
Greer Garson | Walter Pidgeon | Henry Travers | Albert Bassermann | Robert Walker | C. Aubrey Smith | Dame May Whitty | Victor Francen | Elsa Bassermann | Reginald Owen | Van Johnson | Margaret O'Brien | James Hilton | Mariska Aldrich | Tony Carson | Ruth Cherrington | Ray Collins | Guy D'Ennery | George Davis | Harold De Becker | Franz Dorfler | Justine Duney | Tay Dunn | William Edmunds | Nestor Eristoff | Al Ferguson | Edward Fielding | Howard Freeman | Linda Lee Gates | Marie Louise Gates | Lisa Golm | Ilka Grüning | Lumsden Hare | Teddy Infuhr | James Kirkwood | Isabel La Mal | Gene Lockhart | Miles Mander | George Meader | Dickie Meyers | Noel Mills | Leo Mostovoy | Alan Napier | Moroni Olsen | María Pagés | Gigi Perreau | Francis Pierlot | Nita Pike | Dorothy Raye | Almira Sessions | Arthur Shields | Wyndham Standing | Ray Teal | Charles Trowbridge | Michael Visaroff | Marek Windheim | Frederick Worlock | Eustace Wyatt