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Romance of Radium( 1937)

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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

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      Pete Smith

      Narrator (voice)

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      Margaret Bert

      Nurse (uncredited)

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      André Cheron

      Henri Antoine Becquerel (uncredited)

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      James Conaty

      American Scientist (uncredited)

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      Eddie Hart

      Photographer (uncredited)

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      Emmett Vogan

      Pierre Curie (uncredited)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Jun 29 2025
    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 de...

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    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • radium
    • short film