Madame Curie

Format:

Video disc

Title:

Madame Curie

Uniform Title:

Madame Curie (Motion picture)

ISBN:

9781419844065

Distribution:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]

Publication:

[Los Angeles, Calif.] : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [1943]

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Title from disc label.

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.

Reading Level:

Not rated.

Personal Subject:

Curie, Marie, 1867-1934-Biography-Film adaptations.

Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906-Biography-Film adaptations.

Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 (OCoLC)fst00064685

Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906 (OCoLC)fst00148275

Curie, Marie, 1867-1934-Drama.

Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906-Drama.

Corporate Subject:

Université de Paris -- Drama.

Université de Paris. (OCoLC)fst00538572

Subject(s):

Université de Paris -- Drama.

Radium -- Drama.

Women scientists -- France -- Paris -- Drama.

Nobel Prize winners -- France -- Drama.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

DVD-Video discs.

Video recordings.

Paris (France) -- Drama.

Geographic Term:

Paris (France) -- Drama.

France.

France -- Paris.

Genre:

Science in motion pictures.

Biographical -- Feature.

Added Corporate Author:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Added Uniform Title:

Romance of radium (Motion picture)

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Summary

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