Madame Curie
1943 · Movie · Approved · 124 min · ★ 7.2 · 81% critics
In 1890s Paris, a gifted student pushes past doubt and exclusion to join a fellow researcher in a demanding search for a mysterious new element. As their partnership deepens, years of grueling work, scarce support, and mounting risks threaten both their hopes and their future.
Based on Madame Curie
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Details
- Years
- 1943
- Release date
- 1943-12-16
- Language
- English
- Rated
- Approved
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Critic score
- 81/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (51 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy thoughtful old Hollywood dramas that blend romance with perseverance and ideas, somewhere between Waterloo Bridge and Queen Christina; Not for you if you want fast pacing or a more emotionally natural style.
Pros: strong central romance; inspiring scientific drive; vivid period atmosphere | Cons: stiff performances; dry pacing; overly sentimental tone
Themes
- biography
- historical figure
- marie curie
- radioactivity
- physicist
- laboratory
- sorbonne
- female scientist
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1944 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Picture · 1944 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Sound · 1944 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score · 1944 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Cinematography, Black-and-White · 1944 · nominated
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- Academy Award — Best Art Direction, Black and White · 1944 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actor · 1944 · nominated
Cast & crew
Greer Garson
as Marie Curie
Walter Pidgeon
as Pierre Curie
Henry Travers
as Eugene Curie
Albert Bassermann
as Professor Jean Perot
Robert Walker
as David Le Gros
C. Aubrey Smith
as Lord Kelvin
May Whitty
as Madame Eugene Curie
Victor Francen
as President of University
Elsa Bassermann
as Madame Perot
Reginald Owen
as Dr. Becquerel
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy