“Madame Curie,” the 1943 film about the physicist and chemist Maria Sk?odowska, is on TV today.

“Madame Curie” is one of director Mervyn LeRoy’s films featured on Turner Classic Movies today. TCM is running a block of LeRoy films starting at 9 am with Little Caesar, then Madame Curie, Million Dollar Mermaid at 1 pm, Anthony Adverse at 3, The Devil at 4 O’Clock, followed by Random Harvest, Brad See, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo and finally Quo Vadis.

The 1943 film was led by Greer Garson in the title role with the book written by Ève Curie.

Greer Garson … Marie Curie
Walter Pidgeon … Pierre Curie
Henry Travers … Eugene Curie
Albert Bassermann … Prof. Jean Perot
Robert Walker … David Le Gros
C. Aubrey Smith … Lord Kelvin

Madame Curie coined the expression radioactivity and discovered two elements, polonium and radium. Polonium was named for her native country. Curie died in 1934.