MissGreerGarson.com by Ed S.
Madame Curie (1943)
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Some of Ed's favourite moments
- Here we have a much more sombre and subdued Greer, but she's as lovely as ever.
- At first I was disappointed with this movie because of its more sombre tone. But the more I see it, the more charming and sweet it becomes.
- The first hour of this movie is wonderfully romantic, in a geeky kind of way.
- Listen to the mathematical jargon that she speaks early in the film. It's not your typical movie-math.
- There are several nice moments when Greer and Walter look furtively back and forth at one another, This happens at the door to Professor Perot's apartment, and a second time, and then just after croquet, when Walter sits down to drink his lemonade.
- "Flamelike."
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Walter's "courtship" and proposal is really quite sweet,
even though I'm screaming at him throughout the whole
movie to tell her that he loves her.
But at least he gives her a kiss on the forehead.
- It's so funny to see Henry Travers and May Whitty in such a different relationship than the one they had in "Mrs. Miniver".
- Greer finally gets to blow her stack on film when the dish appears to be empty.
- Greer is absolutely gorgeous in this movie of course, but we don't get too many really big Greer-smiles. One of them occurs just after croquet, before Walter has sat down to drink his lemonade.
- Another big Greer-smile and Greer-laugh when she's on vacation and playing briefly with her second daughter, during Van Johnson's appearance.
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Late in the movie, when they're on vacation, she says
"it may not come up to your expectations." This always
reminds me of the moment in "Random Harvest" when she
says to Philip Dorn "he used that very expression," and
earlier when she says to Charles Rainier, "you may
remember I told you when I took the position."
It's the way she says "tion". - After the tragedy, Greer's way of crying is very realistic and affecting.
- We get an extended close-up of Greer's hands when she's opening some of Pierre's last effects.
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There are a lot of funny bits in this movie.
For example, Walter grabs the books out of his mother's hands as he rides his bicycle past her. Or the whistling, and the noise that David makes as he helps Marie settle in to the laboratory. - I think Robert Walker is quite charming in this movie. His primary scene involves his helping Marie to settle into the laboratory. Look at the expression on his face after he's finished closing the squeaky door.
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Marie Curie's younger daughter Eve, who wrote the
biography that inspired this movie, died recently,
on October 22, 2007, at the age of 102.
She was born just a couple of months after Greer was. - Would you like to read a little bit of fan fiction for this movie? I believe that the only such fiction on the entire internet is to be found here.
