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Madame Curie Details

Release Date: Dec 15, 1943
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Runtime: 2 hr. 4 min.
Genres: Documentary
Director:Mervyn LeRoy
Cast:Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Walker, Albert Basserman, Van Johnson.

FULL SYNOPSIS

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, Rovi

Release date:December 15, 1943

Awards

Awarded by	Nominee	Category	Year	Status
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Hugh Hunt	Best Black and White Art Direction	1943	Nominee
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Paul Groesse	Best Black and White Art Direction	1943	Nominee
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Douglas Shearer	Best Sound	1943	Nominee
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Herbert Stothart	Best Score - Drama or Comedy	1943	Nominee
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Joseph Ruttenberg	Best Black and White Cinematography	1943	Nominee
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Greer Garson	Best Actress	1943	Nominee
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Walter Pidgeon	Best Actor	1943	Nominee
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Cedric Gibbons	Best Black and White Art Direction	1943	Nominee
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Edwin B. Willis	Best Black and White Art Direction	1943	Nominee

Cast

Greer Garson: as Mme. Marie Curie
Walter Pidgeon: as Pierre Curie
Robert Walker: as David LeGros
Albert Basserman: as Prof. Jean Perot
Van Johnson: as Reporter
Margaret O'Brien: as Irene at Age Five
Henry Travers: as Eugene Curie
C. Aubrey Smith: as Lord Kelvin
Dame May Whitty: as Mme. Eugene Curie
Elsa Basserman: as Madame Perot
Reginald Owen: as Dr. Becquerel
Lisa Golm: as Lucille
Francis Pierlot: as M. Michaud
Alan Napier: as Dr. Bladh
Ray Teal: as Driver
George Davis
Guy D'Ennery: as Professor
William Edmunds: as Cart Driver
Charles Trowbridge: as Board Member
Michael Visaroff: as Proud Papa
Mariska Aldrich: as Tall Woman
Almira Sessions: as Mme. Michaud
Frederic Worlock: as Businessman
Edward Fielding
Lumsden Hare: as Prof. Roget
Gigi Perreau: as Eva at Age 18 Months
Howard Freeman: as Prof. Constant
Arthur Shields: as Businessman
George Meader: as Singing Professor
Miles Mander: as Businessman
Leo Mostovoy: as Photographer
Wyndham Standing: as King Oscar
Victor Francen: as President of University
Gene Lockhart
Al Ferguson
Moroni Olsen: as President of Businessmen's Board
Ray Collins: as Lecturer

Crew

Mervyn LeRoy: Director
Paul Osborn: Screenwriter
Joseph Ruttenberg: Cinematographer
Herbert Stothart: Composer (Music Score)
Harold Kress: Editor
Cedric Gibbons: Production Designer
Paul Groesse: Production Designer
Edwin B. Willis: Set Designer
Hugh Hunt: Set Designer
Gile Steele: Costume Designer
Irene Sharaff: Costume Designer
Warren Newcombe: Special Effects
Jack Dawn: Makeup