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Madame Curie
MR. and MRS. MINIVER together again
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
- Original title
- Madame Curie
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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Jul 6, 2025 · via TMDB
Fresh from their successful pairing in “Mrs Miniver”, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon join forces for a melodrama about the French scientists who worked tirelessly to discover radium. Why, you might ask? Well, their friend had alerted them to the fact that a certain rock he found is capable of glowing in the dark? They know it isn’t one of the already identified elements and so Pierre Curie and his research assistant and soon to be wife Marie set about trying to get to the bottom of things. This is an onerous process with little backing from their peers, and indeed when Mme. Curie starts to see some ill effects that could suggest cancer, they begin to wonder if they shouldn’t just abandon the whole thing. Rather intuitively, though, they conclude that if this substance can kill healthy cells then maybe it can also nobble malevolent ones too? Now what ensues is actually quite a tough film to watch as their manual labours and sacrifices are really quite powerfully portrayed amidst frozen and rudimentary conditions in a glorified shed. There’s a solid chemistry between the two stars, the film’s production design is convincing and it obliquely looks at issues of sexism and establishment scepticism too. Speculative, sure, but quite enjoyable.
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Greer Garson
Marie Curie
Walter Pidgeon
Pierre Curie
Henry Travers
Eugene Curie
Albert Bassermann
Professor Jean Perot
Robert Walker
David Le Gros
C. Aubrey Smith
Lord Kelvin
May Whitty
Madame Eugene Curie
Victor Francen
President of University
Elsa Bassermann
Madame Perot
Reginald Owen
Dr. Becquerel
Van Johnson
Reporter
Margaret O'Brien
Irene Curie - Age 5
James Hilton
Narration Spoken By (voice)
Ruth Cherrington
Swedish Queen (uncredited)
Ray Collins
Lecturer (voice) (uncredited)
Guy D'Ennery
Professor (uncredited)
George Davis
Cart Driver (uncredited)
William Edmunds
Cart Driver (uncredited)
Al Ferguson
Man at Accident (uncredited)
Edward Fielding
Board Member (uncredited)
Howard Freeman
Prof. Constant (voice) (uncredited)
Lisa Golm
Lucille (uncredited)
Ilka Grüning
Seamstress (uncredited)
Lumsden Hare
Professor Roget (uncredited)
Teddy Infuhr
Son (uncredited)
James Kirkwood
Board Member (uncredited)
Isabel La Mal
Woman at Accident (uncredited)
Gene Lockhart
Bit Part (uncredited)
Miles Mander
Businessman (uncredited)
George Meader
Singing Professor (uncredited)
Alan Napier
Dr. Bladh (uncredited)
Moroni Olsen
President of Businessman's Board (uncredited)
María Pagés
Woman at Accident (uncredited)
Gigi Perreau
Eve at 18 Months (uncredited)
Francis Pierlot
Monsieur Michaud (uncredited)
Almira Sessions
Madame Michaud (uncredited)
Arthur Shields
Businessman (uncredited)
Wyndham Standing
King Oscar (uncredited)
Ray Teal
Driver (uncredited)
Charles Trowbridge
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Michael Visaroff
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Marek Windheim
Jewelry Salesman (uncredited)
Frederick Worlock
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Eustace Wyatt
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Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Joseph Ruttenberg
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Irene
Costume Design
Irene
Costume Supervisor
Mervyn LeRoy
Director
Sidney Franklin
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Herbert Stothart
Music
Paul Osborn
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