Madame curie movie, Greer Garson stars as the title character of Marvin LeRoy's fact-based biographical portrait. As the film opens, it is the turn of the century; Polish-born Curie is an impoverished student living in Paris.
One of her professors, Jean Perot (Albert Basserman), offers her the opportunity to earn money by studying the magnetic properties of steel. When Pierre Curie (Walter Pidgeon, teaming with Garson for the third time), a meek scientist, begins working side-by-side with the young woman, his admiration for her scientific acumen soon turns to love, although he is too shy to express his feelings.
Only the threat of her return to Poland is enough to force him to reveal his feelings and propose marriage. After their honeymoon, the Curies renew their studies of a piece of pitchblende and its behavior. After years of hardship and research, the pitchblende yields the discovery of radium. Just as their achievement begins to earn them worldwide renown, tragedy strikes, and Pierre dies in a car accident. Undaunted, Madame Curie continues their studies.
