Madame Curie Summary
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Genres: Drama
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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
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