TY - BOOK AU - Mervyn LeRoy AU - Mervyn LeRoy AU - Paul Osborn AU - Hans Rameau AU - Ève Curie AU - Greer Garson AU - Walter Pidgeon AU - Henry Travers TI - Madame Curie AV - PN1997 .M333 1943 PY - 2012/// CY - United States PB - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) N1 - Based on the biography of Marie Curie written by Ève Curie N2 - In an era when women were allowed to be ornaments, mothers or drudges, young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of something more. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and - with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband - to make one of the greatest breakthroughs of the 20th-century science. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon reunite after their Mrs. Miniver triumph to portray the courageous couple who won the 1903 Nobel Prize for their discovery of radium. This stirring biopic captures the challenge of research, the triumph of achievement and the profound bond of love they shared ER -