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TitleMadame Curie (1943)
Alternative/Original Title
DisabilityCancer
CountryUSA
Length124
GenreBiography
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DirectorMervyn LeRoy
CastGreer Garson Walter Pidgeon Robert Walker Dame May Whitty Henry Travers
NotesBiography of the Polish woman who isolated radium and won two Nobel prizes. On the way she is diagnosed with cancer but survives. Madame Curie is the first woman that I remember who stood as an historical figure alongside the great male scientists. Also of interest here is that science is seen as having a positive role in people's lives whether it was preventing disease or war. This can be contrasted with the much greater number of films on this site in which science and/or the scientist is portrayed as evil. From the book by Eve Curie

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