Madame Curie

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Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Overview
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.
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CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)
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 glowi...
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