Marie Curie but she declined, focusing on the developing Radium Institute to be completed in August 1914, and on a new street named Rue Pierre-Curie. She was appointed Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris, founded in 1914. She visited Poland in 1913 and was welcomed in Warsaw but the visit was mostly ignored by the Russian authorities. The Institute's development was interrupted by the coming war, as most researchers were drafted into the French Army, and it fully resumed its activities in 1919. During World War I, Curie recognised that wounded soldiers were best
Madame Curie (film) mention of Marie's intense devotion to politics and the liberation/independence of her native Poland. Author James Hilton was the narrator for this film. According to MGM records the film earned $2,575,000 in the US and Canada and $2,035,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $1,086,000. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: "Madame Curie" was satirized in a 1976 episode of "SCTV" as "Madame Blitzman" (mistakenly shown on 'Monster Chiller Horror Theater') in which Frances Blitzman/Marie Curie (Andrea Martin) works alongside her husband Louis Blitzman/Pierre Curie (Eugene Levy) in creating a life-extension formula derived from radiation