In turn-of- the-century Paris, poor Polish student Marie gets a chance to study magnetism with kindly professor Jean Perot. Perot also arranges for the shy scientist Pierre Curie 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.
Marie Curie . . . Greer Garson
Pierre Curie . . . Walter Pidgeon
MADAME CURIE was released by MGM on December 16, 1943. Greer Garson received her third Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role as Marie Curie.
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MR. and MRS. MINIVER together again.
