Madame Curie / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; produced by Sidney Franklin ; screen play by Paul Osborn and Paul H. Rameau ; director, Mervyn LeRoy.

Format:

• Video

Author/Creator:

• Curie, Eve, 1904-2007. Madame Curie, author.

Contributor:

• LeRoy, Mervyn, 1900-1987, director.
• Franklin, Sidney A., 1893-1972, producer.
• Osborn, Paul, 1901-1988, screenwriter.
• Rameau, Hans, 1901-1980, screenwriter.
• Garson, Greer, 1904-1996, actor.
• Pidgeon, Walter, 1897-1984, actor.
• Travers, Henry, 1874-1965, actor.
• Bassermann, Albert, 1867-1952, actor.
• Walker, Robert, 1918-1951, actor.
• Smith, C. Aubrey (Charles Aubrey), 1863-1948, actor.
• Whitty, May, Dame, 1865-1948, actor.
• Francen, Victor, actor.
• Basserman, Elsa, 1878-1961, actor.
• Owen, Reginald, 1887-1972, actor.
• Johnson, Van, 1916-2008, actor.
• O'Brien, Margaret, 1937- actor.
• Stothart, Herbert, 1885-1949, composer.
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producer.
• Warner Home Video (Firm), distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Curie, Eve, 1904-2007--Film adaptations.
• Curie, Marie, 1867-1934--Drama.
• Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906--Drama.
• Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906.
• Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.
• Curie, Eve, 1904-2007.
• Université de Paris--Drama.
• Université de Paris.
• Radium--Drama.
• Women scientists--France--Paris--Drama.
• Nobel Prize winners--France--Drama.
• Nobel Prize winners.
• Women scientists.
• Radium.
• Paris (France)--Drama.
• France.
• France--Paris.

Genre:

• Biographical films.
• Film adaptations.
• Feature films.
• Drama.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
• monochrome

Edition:

Fullscreen.

Place of Publication:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]

Language Note:

In English with optional English subtitles.

System Details:

• DVD, NTSC; region 1 ; Dolby Digital mono., dual-layer.
• digital
• optical
• mono
• Dolby
• NTSC
• video file
• DVD video
• region 1

Summary:

Young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of being something more than being just a wife and mother. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, goes on to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science.

Participant:

Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Basserman, Robert Walker, C. Aubrey Smith, Dame May Whitty, Victor Francen, Elsa Basserman, Reginald Owen, Van Johnson, Margaret O'Brien.

Credits:

Narration spoken by James Hilton ; music, Herbert Stothart ; director of photography, Joespeh Ruttenberg ; editor, Harold F. Kress.

Notes:

• Closed-captioned.
• 1.33:1 aspect ratio.
• Based on the book by Eve Curie.
• Originally released as a motion picture in 1943.
• Special features: Vintage Oscar-nominated Pete Smith specialty short "Romance of Radium;" Greer Garson movie trailer gallery.

Related Work:

Curie, Eve, 1904-2007. Madame Curie, author.

Contains:

Romance of radium

ISBN:

• 1419844067
• 9781419844065

OCLC:

78806213

Publisher Number:

• 012569795259
• 79525 Warner Home Video