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This film is loosely based on Curie's life. I would have preferred if it had shown just a little bit that Marie Curie was human as well as talented! But it is still a movie that deserves to be seen. It's always a pleasure to see that wonderful team Garson and Pidgeon together!

I have three must have/see Greer Garson films and they are Madame Curie, Mrs. Miniver & Random Harvest! The first two movies paired her with Walter Pidgeon and their on screen chemistry was so good that people thought they were really married! This is a Classic in every since but as a film to inspire little girls in to science it is unbeatable! Just like the real life Amelia Earhart story it shows what a real person who loves to learn and seek understanding can accomplish! Great film! Great romance! Madame Curie

Sweet movie, sweet story. Unfortunately, almost everything shown in the movie has very little common with the reality, what can be easy seen by confronting the book by Eve Curie (that the move is "based on"). However, this doesn't matter too much: the "backbone" is correct, and the message is strong: If you want to achieve something, you need talent, passion and a lot of hard work. A lot of hard work. What is hard to accept by iPod generation.

Greer Garson stars as Madame Marie Curie, the famous Polish scientist who discovered radium and won two Nobel Prizes. The story details her struggle to obtain degree at the Sorbonne when it was uncommon for women to pursue higher education, especially in science. However, her extraordinary intellect and hard work slowly wins over her professors. One of them, Professor Perot (Albert Bassermann), finds room for her in the lab of Pierre Curie (Walter Pidgeon), a shy physics professor who doesn't approve of women being scientists. He worries that Marie will be too talkative and disrupt his work. Of course, the two end up falling in love and becoming life-long collaborators. When Marie discovers radium, they have to put in years of back-breaking work to isolate the element. Marie even ends up with radiation burns on her hands, although no one even know what radiation was at the time. The movie climaxes with their scientific breakthroughs, although tragedy mars their happiness.

"Madame Curie" was the third pairing of Garson and Pidgeon, following "Blossoms in the Dust" (1941) and "Mrs. Miniver" (1942), both of which are superior to this film. As with "Mrs. Miniver," Garson and Pidgeon were Oscar nominated for their leading roles here. The pair has great chemistry (bad pun!) as always. The film is well-made and moves along at a nice pace; however, it's the kind of extremely glossy affair you'd expect from a 1940s MGM movie. Much of Marie Curie's life is ignored, particularly her political activities. As long as you aren't expecting accuracy here, you'll probably enjoy "Madame Curie," which focuses on (and probably exaggerates) the romance between Marie and her husband.

I have purchased this movie to watch with my daughter as a part of her school project on biography of Marie Sklodowska Curie. I loved this movie!