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Tag Archives: Albert Lewin
The Moon and Sixpence (1942) Albert Lewin, George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley

Loosely inspired from Gauguin’s life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons Read More »
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Albert Lewin, George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed

In 1886, in the Victorian London, the corrupt Lord Henry Wotton meets the pure Dorian Gray posing for talented painter Basil Hallward. Read More »
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) Albert Lewin, James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

Albert Lewin’s interpretation of the legend of the Flying Dutchman. In a little Spanish seaport named Esperanza, during the 30s, appears Hendrick van der Zee Read More »
Madame Curie (1943) Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Lewin, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Biography, Drama, Romance

Biopic of the famed scientist and the work she did with her husband Pierre in the discovery of radium. Marie was a student at the Sorbonne studying for her Master’s degree in physics when they first met. She received permission to use space in Professor Pierre Curie’s laboratory. They soon fall in love and are married, working together on trying to isolate a radioactive substance Marie has identified as radium. Years of painstaking research and experimentation led to success and Marie and Pierre Curie shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. Sadly, Pierre was killed crossing the street in the rain when he was run over by a horse and wagon. Marie continued to work and make major contributions to science.
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