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Madame Curie (DVD) (*)

$26.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1943 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Mervyn LeRoy

Written By:
Paul Osborn
Paul H. Rameau

Actors:
Greer Garson ..... Marie Curie
Walter Pidgeon ..... Pierre Curie
Henry Travers ..... Eugene Curie
Albert Bassermann ..... Professor Jean Perot
Robert Walker ..... David Le Gros
C. Aubrey Smith ..... Lord Kelvin
Dame May Whitty ..... Madame Eugene Curie
Victor Francen ..... President of University
Elsa Bassermann ..... Madame Perot
Reginald Owen ..... Dr. Becquerel
Van Johnson ..... Reporter
Margaret O'Brien ..... Irene Curie - Age 5
James Hilton ..... Narration Spoken By

Synopsis:

Biopic of the famed scientist and the work she did with her husband Pierre in the discovery of radium. Marie was a student at the Sorbonne studying for her Master's degree in physics when they first met. She received permission to use space in Professor Pierre Curie's laboratory. They soon fall in love and are married, working together on trying to isolate a radioactive substance Marie has identified as radium. Years of painstaking research and experimentation led to success and Marie and Pierre Curie shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. Sadly, Pierre was killed crossing the street in the rain when he was run over by a horse and wagon. Marie continued to work and make major contributions to science.

Young Polish physics student Marie marries Doctor Pierre Curie, in whose lab she had worked for a while. On their honeymoon they decide to find out what caused the strange effect Prof. Becquerel has noticed with the uranium/thorium stones for her dissertation. After many experiments they find out that there must be more radioactive elements than uranium and thorium, and they try to isolate it. After years of experiments in a makeshift lab at the University, they are able to isolate a few grains of a new element, radium, from 7 tons of raw material, but at the height of their success, Pierre is killed in an traffic accident.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 29 August, 2012.