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 CurieWalter Pidgeon … Pierre CurieHenry Travers … Eugene CurieAlbert Bassermann … Prof. Jean PerotRobert Walker … David Le GrosC. 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.
A second season begins on "Can You Duet" (CMT, 8 p.m.), the country music competition from the makers of "American Idol." Ten pairs of singers compete for a slightly shifted panel of judges. Naomi Judd returns, alongside Big Kenny Alphin of Big and Rich. Also judging is Scott Borchetta, CDO of Big Machine Records, who will be awarding a recording contract for the winners.
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