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| Title | Madame Curie (1943) | | Alternative/Original Title | | | Disability | Cancer | | Country | USA | | Length | 124 | | Genre | Biography | | Rating | ? | | Director | Mervyn LeRoy
| | Cast | Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Robert Walker Dame May Whitty Henry Travers
| | Notes | Biography 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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