Skirts in the lab: Madame Curie and the image of the woman scientist in the feature film

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 269-278

  Elena, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

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ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; FRANCE; HISTORY; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; RADIOLOGY; SCIENCE; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FRANCE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MOTION PICTURES; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; RADIOLOGY; SCIENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031182374     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-6625/6/3/005     Document Type: Article

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2. LaFollette, M. C., 1990, Making Science Our Own: Public Images of Science, 1910-1955 (University of Chicago Press), p.90.
3. Curie, E., 1937, Madame Curie (Paris, Gallimard). The book was immediately translated into several languages and became very widely known. In the USA it was published in 1938 by Doubleday and sold more than a million copies, in spite of already having appeared in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post (in eight instalments in September and October 1937).
4. Curie, E., 1937, Madame Curie (Paris, Gallimard). The book was immediately translated into several languages and became very widely known. In the USA it was published in 1938 by Doubleday and sold more than a million copies, in spite of already having appeared in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post (in eight instalments in September and October 1937).
5. Curie, E., 1937, Madame Curie (Paris, Gallimard), p.7.
6. Curie, E., 1937, Madame Curie (Paris, Gallimard), p.226.
7. Curie, E., 1937, Madame Curie (Paris, Gallimard), p.113 [emphasis added].
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11. Curie, E., 1937, Madame Curie (Paris, Gallimard), p.216.
12. Galerstein, C. L., 1989, Working Women on the Hollywood Screen: A Filmography (New York, London: Garland), p.XVII.
13. Anderson, C., 1988, Biographical film. Handbook of American Film Genres, edited by W. D. Gehring (New York, Westport, Conn., London: Greenwood Press), p.336. See also Elena, A., 1993, Exemplary lives: biographies of scientists on the screen. Public Understanding of Science, 2(3), 205-223.
14. Anderson, C., 1988, Biographical film. Handbook of American Film Genres, edited by W. D. Gehring (New York, Westport, Conn., London: Greenwood Press), p.336. See also Elena, A., 1993, Exemplary lives: biographies of scientists on the screen. Public Understanding of Science, 2(3), 205-223.
15. On early exponents of this subgenre see Elena, A., 1993, El ángel inoculador: Pasteur y los orígenes de las biografías cinematográficas de científicos. Las imágenes de la ciencia en el cine de ficción, edited by A. Elena, monographic issue of Arbor, 145(569), 17-37.
16. See Dumont, H., 1977, William Dieterle (1893-1972). L'Avant-Scène du Cinéma, 196, 152; as well as Dumont, H., 1994, William Dieterle: antifascismo y compromiso romántico (San Sebastián, Madrid: Festival Internacional de Cine-Filmoteca Española), p.145.
17. See Dumont, H., 1977, William Dieterle (1893-1972). L'Avant-Scène du Cinéma, 196, 152; as well as Dumont, H., 1994, William Dieterle: antifascismo y compromiso romántico (San Sebastián, Madrid: Festival Internacional de Cine-Filmoteca Española), p.145.
18. The visit to the USA is described in chapter XXIII of Curie, E., 1937, Madame Curie (Paris, Gallimard), pp.257-267. Its repercussions are well recounted in Kevles, D. J., 1978, The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modem America (New York: Knopf), pp.204-220.
19. The visit to the USA is described in chapter XXIII of Curie, E., 1937, Madame Curie (Paris, Gallimard), pp.257-267. Its repercussions are well recounted in Kevles, D. J., 1978, The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modem America (New York: Knopf), pp.204-220.
20. On Huxley's participation in the Madame Curie project see Clark, V. M., 1987, Aldous Huxley and Film (Metuchen, London: Scarecrow), pp.29-39, and Dunaway, D. K., 1989, Huxley in Hollywood (New York: Harper & Row), pp.85-87, 102-103.
21. On Huxley's participation in the Madame Curie project see Clark, V. M., 1987, Aldous Huxley and Film (Metuchen, London: Scarecrow), pp.29-39, and Dunaway, D. K., 1989, Huxley in Hollywood (New York: Harper & Row), pp.85-87, 102-103.
22. Letter to Julian Huxley, 18 November 1938; in Smith, G., 1969, Letters of Aldous Huxley (New York: Harper & Row), p.437.
23. Letter to Julian Huxley, 18 November 1938; in Smith, G., 1969, Letters of Aldous Huxley (New York: Harper & Row), p.437.
24. See Curie, E., 1937, Madame Curie (Paris, Gallimard), p.219. The details of this affair are given in Reid, R., 1974, Marie Curie (London: Collins), pp.196-214, and also in Bensaude-Vincent, B., 1987, Langevin: Science et vigilance (Paris: Belin), pp.36-39.
25. See Curie, E., 1937, Madame Curie (Paris, Gallimard), p.219. The details of this affair are given in Reid, R., 1974, Marie Curie (London: Collins), pp.196-214, and also in Bensaude-Vincent, B., 1987, Langevin: Science et vigilance (Paris: Belin), pp.36-39.
26. See Curie, E., 1937, Madame Curie (Paris, Gallimard), p.219. The details of this affair are given in Reid, R., 1974, Marie Curie (London: Collins), pp.196-214, and also in Bensaude-Vincent, B., 1987, Langevin: Science et vigilance (Paris: Belin), pp.36-39.
27. Dunaway, D. K., 1989, Huxley in Hollywood (New York: Harper & Row), p. 102.
28. Loos, A., 1951, A Mouse is Born (New York: Doubleday), p.28.
29. Dunaway, D. K., 1989, Huxley in Hollywood (New York: Harper & Row), pp.86, 103. The version which attributes MGM's lack of interest in the script to the Curie's refusal to patent their discovery in return for a million dollars is given, among others, by Brecht, B., Wilhelm Dieterles Galerie grosser bürgerlicher Figuren, reprinted in Von Deutschland nach Hollywood: William Dieterle (1893-1972) (Berlin: Deutsche Kinemathek, 1973), pp.5-6.
30. Dunaway, D. K., 1989, Huxley in Hollywood (New York: Harper & Row), pp.86, 103. The version which attributes MGM's lack of interest in the script to the Curie's refusal to patent their discovery in return for a million dollars is given, among others, by Brecht, B., Wilhelm Dieterles Galerie grosser bürgerlicher Figuren, reprinted in Von Deutschland nach Hollywood: William Dieterle (1893-1972) (Berlin: Deutsche Kinemathek, 1973), pp.5-6.
31. Letter to Julian Huxley, 18 November 1938, in Smith, G., 1969, Letters of Aldous Huxley (New York: Harper & Row), p.437.
32. Letter to Julian Huxley, 18 November 1938, in Smith, G., 1969, Letters of Aldous Huxley (New York: Harper & Row), p.437.
33. Contrary to Latham, A., 1971, Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (New York: Viking), pp.196-199, Huxley and Fitzgerald never worked together on the script for Madame Curie. All the evidence indicates that Fitzgerald arrived on the project after Huxley had been dismissed: see Clark, V. M., 1987, Aldous Huxley and Film (Metuchen, London: Scarecrow), p.34.
34. Contrary to Latham, A., 1971, Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (New York: Viking), pp.196- 199, Huxley and Fitzgerald never worked together on the script for Madame Curie. All the evidence indicates that Fitzgerald arrived on the project after Huxley had been dismissed: see Clark, V. M., 1987, Aldous Huxley and Film (Metuchen, London: Scarecrow), p.34.
35. Quoted in Latham, A., 1971, Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (New York: Viking), p.203. Extract from a note of Fitzgerald's dated 7 November 1938, kept in the Metro Goldwyn Mayer archives.
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39. Wood, M., 1975, America at the Movies (New York: Basic Books), p.64.
40. Not suprisingly, Eve Curie felt well satisfied with the results, according to Mervyn LeRoy's autobiography, 1974, Take One (London, New York: W. H. Allen), p. 151.
41. Time, 20 December 1943; quoted in Latham, A., 1971, Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (New York: Viking), p.211.
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48. Weart, S. R., 1988, The physicist as mad scientist. Physics Today, June, 34. Marie's reaction to Pierre's death is described by Eve Curie, 1937, Madame Curie (Paris: Gallimard), pp.199-201.
49. Weart, S. R., 1988, The physicist as mad scientist. Physics Today, June, 34. Marie's reaction to Pierre's death is described by Eve Curie, 1937, Madame Curie (Paris: Gallimard), pp.199-201.
50. Campbell Dixon, in The Times; quoted by Shortland, M., 1987, Reel Lives: Scientific Biography on Film (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Communications Seminar), p.14.
51. Campbell Dixon, in The Times; quoted by Shortland, M., 1987, Reel Lives: Scientific Biography on Film (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Communications Seminar), p.14.
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