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Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on Sept 13, 2007 19:24:43 GMT -5
Young Polish physics student Marie marries Doctor Pierre Curie, in whose lab she had worked for a while. On their honeymoon they decide to find out what caused the strange effect Prof. Becquerel has noticed with the uranium/thorium stones for her dissertation. After many experiments they find out that there must be more radioactive elements than uranium and thorium, and they try to isolate it.
MR. and MRS. MINIVER together again
Greer Garson ... Marie Curie Walter Pidgeon ... Pierre Curie Henry Travers ... Eugene Curie Albert Bassermann ... Prof. Jean Perot Robert Walker ... David Le Gros C. Aubrey Smith ... Lord Kelvin Dame May Whitty ... Madame Eugene Curie
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Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on Sept 13, 2007 19:25:02 GMT -5
Oh my gosh, I am now addicted to Science! LOL
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Post by butterscotchgreer on Sept 16, 2007 16:30:45 GMT -5
youre telling me!! heehee! when i first saw this one, i was so impressed with her life that i wrote a term paper on the real marie curie. i had so much to say on her and ended up writing 12 pages on her life!!! i got so obssessed with her that i got every single book on her and pierre and read every one of them, but i read them all at once like an idiot (heehee) and got confused at times with all the science talk, but i read all of it over and was just too excited about her. ask me anything on her life and i would probably know it. heehee!
i love the way greer and walter portrayed marie and pierre. they both should have gotten their oscars for this movie, but they did both get nominations. yay!!
i cried a lot when pierre died and then when greer cried. she just gave so much when did did that scene, im not kidding!!
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Post by Miss Retro on Oct 19, 2007 17:01:31 GMT -5
Full Synopsis: Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon team for the third time in this fact-based biography directed by Mervyn Leroy, based on Eve Curie's book about her mother. In turn-of- the-century Paris, poor Polish student Marie (Greer Garson) gets a chance to study magnetism with kindly professor Jean Perot (Albert Basserman). Perot also arranges for the shy scientist Pierre Curie (Walter Pidgeon) 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. [/center]
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