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Post by butterscotchgreer on Jun 27, 2007 10:06:26 GMT -5
greer is perfectly cast as the gorgeous marie sklodowska. she is at the sorbonne studying physics and math, and passes out during class at the beginning of the movie from starvation. she was a poor girl with hardly fancy clothes on. she just yearned to learn everything she could. she was sorta set up with pierre curie (walter pidgeon again...yey!) by her teacher....in the movie.
she goes to work as his assistant in his science lab, and they gradually fall in love with each other....of course at the beginning of their meeting each other, he didnt think a woman should be allowed in a lab. boy did she prove him wrong, and he started to respect her. she graduates at the top of her class, and tries to go back to polland to be a teacher and to be with her old father. pierre gets mad at this and thinks she is abandoning science....and him.
i love the scene where he proposes...he....well....sorta barges into her room at night, and he persuades her to stay and marry him. it was too great of a scene. they get married and she discovers radium and has their first daughter along the way, who is played by the talented margaret o'brien. im not going to tell you the whole story of course, but you have figured that one out by now im sure. heehee!
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Post by butterscotchgreer on Jun 27, 2007 10:07:33 GMT -5
when i was real little i first saw this and i didnt even know who madame cuire was!!! pathetic i know. heehee! well since i watched this one, i now absolutley love marie curie. i even did a high school paper on her.....14 pages long. i must have studied like five biographies all at once of hers. i went to every single website about her. i probably know more about the real marie curie than so many people, but im proud of it. i would so love to go visit the marie curie institution in france, but i havnt gotten that far yet. hee! you shouldve seen my room when i was writing the paper on her. my whole floor simply covered in marie biographies. i just became so fascinated with her life for some reason.
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Post by butterscotchgreer on Jul 17, 2007 17:27:39 GMT -5
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Post by gramdc on Aug 4, 2007 9:54:14 GMT -5
This is my favorite Greer performance, I love her in everything but this just breaks my heart. When I first saw this as a kid, the scene where she is going over his effects really got to me, when she holds the earrings in her hand and finds his note, it just makes me feel her pain. She was wonderful in that. Random Harvest is my favorite movie of hers, but this is my favorite performance.
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Post by butterscotchgreer on Aug 4, 2007 13:09:41 GMT -5
oh everytine i see that scene where she is in the room being completely silent(without blinking for about 5 whole minutes and the camera never leaving her face) and then she stands up to get the earrings he got for her without her knowing, and then she breaks out crying, falling to the floor hanging on to the curtains, makes me cry so much. i can never stop even though i have seen it numerous times.
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Post by rusty715 on Sept 17, 2007 21:46:32 GMT -5
She was quite beautiful in this movie although the costumes were drab and unflattering. I'ts amazing that she could "stare" for so long without blinking in the final scene. Try it sometime.  |
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Post by butterscotchgreer on Sept 18, 2007 7:54:13 GMT -5
oh my goodness rusty!!! i thought i was the only one who noticed how long she went without blinking. always when i watch that scene, i stare at her and see if i can mathce how long she goes without staring for that long amount of time. goodness, i can never make it as long as she can. the camera never leaves her face, so you can see that she isnt blinking in between the camera focusing on her and something else. i just think that is incredible personally. my brother knows i try to do it too, and sometimes we will have a contest with each other and try to stare each other down. i usually win b/c i have done it so many times, but i am still no match for her. heehee!
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Post by dan on Sept 22, 2007 21:56:25 GMT -5
I'm going to have to break down and watch this one as well this week. I am not into science all that much and hope it doesn't take up too much of the plot. I am a history person,
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Post by butterscotchgreer on Sept 24, 2007 11:37:54 GMT -5
yeah dan if you are a history person than you will love this one as well!!! it is another one of their great teamings together. i am not a science person myself, but this movie makes science looking interesting...it really does.  |
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Post by Miss Retro on Oct 19, 2007 17:20:25 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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