Underplayed Gems

Madame Curie (1943)

Madame Curie poster
Directed by
Mervyn LeRoy
Genre
drama film, biographical film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h 04m
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 52 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In 1890s Paris, a young Polish scientist named Marie begins working in a laboratory alongside a fellow physicist named Pierre. They fall in love while working together on groundbreaking research into radioactivity.

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What happens

Madame Curie is a 1943 American biographical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin from a screenplay by Paul Osborn, Paul H. Rameau, and Aldous Huxley (uncredited), adapted from the biography by Ève Curie. It stars Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, with supporting performances by Robert Walker, Henry Travers, and Albert Bassermann. The film tells the story of Polish-French physicist Marie Curie in 1890s Paris as she begins to share a laboratory with her future husband Pierre Curie. This was the third of eight onscreen pairings with Pidgeon and Garson. In several versions, much of the scientific aspects of the film were cut or removed entirely. Turner Classic Movies has shown it unedited at 124 minutes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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