Romance of Radium (1937)

10/23/1937History, Drama10m
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Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of the discovery of radium and how it is used in medicine. In 1937, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (One-Reel) at the 10th Academy Awards

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Pete Smith

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Margaret Bert

    Nurse (uncredited)

  3. Cast 1

    André Cheron

    Henri Antoine Becquerel (uncredited)

  4. James Conaty

    American Scientist (uncredited)

  5. Eddie Hart

    Photographer (uncredited)

  6. Cast 1

    Emmett Vogan

    Pierre Curie (uncredited)

It’s odd to hear Pete Smith delivering a more straight narrative, but he does it quite authoritatively as we see a few historical scenarios that illustrate just how the accidental discovery of an element that glowed in the dark led Marie Curie to discover this highly toxic element that was amongst the rarest on earth. It needed a mammoth degree of refining from it’s source ore to yield the tiniest amount of it’s salt but this process revealed, somewhat miraculously, that despite it’s lethal qualities it also had remarkable curative powers, too! It’s quite a revelatory short feature this that d...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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