Madame Curie (1943)
Synopsis of Madame Curie
Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon team for the third time in this fact-based biography directed by Mervyn Leroy, based on Eve Curie's book about her mother. In early 1900s Paris, poor Polish student Marie (Greer Garson) gets a chance to study magnetism with kindly professor Jean Perot (Albert Basserman). Perot also arranges for the shy scientist Pierre Curie (Walter Pidgeon) to share the lab with Marie. As they work together, Pierre and Marie fall in love. Pierre eventually musters up the courage to ask her to marry him, and she accepts. After their honeymoon, Marie becomes obsessed with a piece of pitchblende that has been displaying some peculiar properties. After five years of work, Marie discovers radium. But as the years go on, Marie and Pierre struggle to raise money to continue their research, hoping to one day be able to isolate radium from the pitchblende. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 124 mins
Complete Cast of Madame Curie
- Greer Garson - Mme. Marie Curie
- Robert Walker - David LeGros
- Albert Basserman - Prof. Jean Perot
- Henry Travers - Eugene Curie
- Dame May Whitty - Mme. Eugene Curie
- Reginald Owen - Dr. Becquerel
- Miles Mander - Businessman
- Lisa Golm - Lucille
- Dorothy Gilmore - Nurse
- James Hilton - Narrator
- Arthur Shields - Businessman
- Lumsden Hare - Prof. Roget
- Frederic Worlock - Businessman
- Charles Trowbridge - Board Member
- Guy D'Ennery - Professor
- Ray Teal - Driver
- Gigi Perreau - Eva at Age 18 Months
- Michael Visaroff - Proud Papa
- Eustace Wyatt - Doctor
- Ruth Cherrington - Swedish Queen
- Howard Freeman - Prof. Constant
- Walter Pidgeon - Pierre Curie
- Van Johnson - Reporter
- Margaret O'Brien - Irene at Age Five
- C. Aubrey Smith - Lord Kelvin
- Elsa Basserman - Madame Perot
- William Edmunds - Cart Driver
- Nestor Eristoff - Board Member
- Mariska Aldrich - Tall Woman
- Leo Mostovoy - Photographer
- Wyndham Standing - King Oscar
- Ray Collins - Lecturer
- Alan Napier - Dr. Bladh
- Almira Sessions - Mme. Michaud
- Teddy Infur - Son
- Nita Pike - People at Accident
- Francis Pierlot - M. Michaud
- Victor Francen - President of University
- Marek Windheim - Jewelry Salesman
- George Meader - Singing Professor
- Moroni Olsen - President of Businessmen's Board
- Director(s):
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Writer(s):
- Paul Osborn
- Producer(s):
- Sidney Franklin, Sidney Franklin
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