Madame Curie [videorecording (DVD)] / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; producer, Sidney Franklin ; screenplay, Paul Osborn and Paul H. Rameau ; director, Mervyn LeRoy.
Title from container. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Basserman, Robert Walker, C. Aubrey Smith, Dame May Whitty, Victor Francen, Elsa Basserman, Reginald Owen, Van Johnson, Margaret O'Brien. Based on the book by Eve Curie. Originally released as a motion picture in 1943. Special features: Vintage Oscar-nominated Pete Smith specialty short "Romance of Radium;" Greer Garson movie trailer gallery.
Summary:
Young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of being something more than being just a wife and mother. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, goes on to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science.
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