In an era when women were allowed to be ornaments, mothers or drudges, young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of something more. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and, with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science.

Based on the book "Madame Curie" by Eve Curie. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1943. Special features: Pete Smith specialty short "Romance of Radium."