New Movies, the National Board of Review Magazine (Feb 1944 - Dec 1946)

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The New Movies Selected by the Committee on Exceptional Photoplays Madame Curie Adapted by Paul Osborn and Paul Rameau from Eve Curie's book, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, photographed by Joseph Ruttenberg, narration by James Hilton, a Sidney Franklin production produced and distributed by MetroG o Idivy n-Mayer. The cast Pierre Curie Walter Pidgeon Madame Curie Greer Garson Eugene Curie Henry T ravers Mme. Eugene Curie Dame May W hitty Professor Perot Albert Basserman Lord Kelvin C. Aubrey Smith Mme. Perot Elsa Basserman President of University Victor Francen David LcGros Robert Walker the same old formula. Its appeal will be to those who are more interested in people than in what happens to them — and will prove, it is already apparent, that those CCREEN biographies become more and ^ more plentiful, with an astonishing list of them in the offing. Madame Curie is one of the most unusual of them, and one about which there must have been a good deal of hesitation and speculation, because it deals with one of the least dramatic of themes — the scientist's long, tedious dedication to research, where the excitements are so largely in the mind, the crises in such infinitesimal progressions of laboratory experiment. In the search for what turned out to be radium there is not even the stirring climax of the saving of a life through a new discovery, when everything else had failed. But in the life of the Curies there was something that could be given the warm glow of romance, though it was not beset by the usual fictional romantic complications. Boy never loses girl, not even for an instant. The young French professor and the young girl-student from Poland came to know each other in the laboratory, they gradually discovered their affinity through their work. They married and had children, and went on working together. Together they discovered radium. Then Pierre Curie died, and Madame Curie, as an old woman, was known as one of the great benefactors of mankind. And it turns out to be an absorbing record, as Hollywood makes such records, which will be surprising only to those who think that stories always have to follow Greer Garson