Madame Curie (film)
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| Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Produced by | Sidney Franklin |
| Written by |
Aldous Huxley (uncredited) Paul Osborn |
| Starring |
Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Henry Travers |
| Music by |
Herbert Stothart William Axt |
| Cinematography | Joseph Ruttenberg |
| Edited by | Harold F. Kress |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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124 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,938,000 |
| Box office | $4,610,000 |
Madame Curie is a 1943 biographical film made by MGM. 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 fourth of nine onscreen pairings between Pidgeon and Garson.
In several versions, much of the scientific aspects of the film were cut down or edited out entirely. Turner Classic Movies has shown it unedited at 124 minutes.
Marie Sklodowska (Greer Garson) is a poor, idealistic student living in Paris and studying at the Sorbonne. She neglects her health and one day faints during class. Her tutor, Prof. Perot (Albert Bassermann) is sympathetic and, finding that she has no friends or family in Paris, invites her to a soirée his wife is throwing for a "few friends" (primarily professors and their wives). Among the many guests is physicist Pierre Curie (Walter Pidgeon), an extremely shy and absentminded man completely devoted to his work. He allows Marie to share his lab and finds that she is a gifted scientist. Appalled that she plans on returning to Poland to teach after graduation, rather than devoting her life to further study, he takes her to visit his family in their country home. Marie and Pierre both tend to concentrate on science to the extent that they don't realize until the last minute they have fallen in love. Even when Pierre asks Marie to be his wife, he does so in terms of reason, logic and chemistry.
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