The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
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- Passed
- 1h 26min
- Biography, Drama
- Feb 1936 (USA)
- Movie
- Won 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
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Cast verified as complete
Paul Muni | ... |
Louis Pasteur
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Josephine Hutchinson | ... |
Marie Pasteur
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Anita Louise | ... |
Annette Pasteur
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Donald Woods | ... |
Dr. Jean Martel
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Fritz Leiber | ... |
Dr. Charbonnet
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Henry O'Neill | ... |
Dr. Emile Roux
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Porter Hall | ... |
Dr. Rossignol
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Raymond Brown | ... |
Dr. Radisse
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Akim Tamiroff | ... |
Dr. Zaranoff
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Halliwell Hobbes | ... |
Dr. Lister
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Frank Reicher | ... |
Dr. Pfeiffer
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Dickie Moore | ... |
Joseph Meister
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Ruth Robinson | ... |
Mrs. Meister
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Walter Kingsford | ... |
Napoleon III
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Iphigenie Castiglioni | ... |
Empress Eugénie
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Herbert Corthell | ... |
Louis Adolphe Thiers - First President Republic of France
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Richard Alexander | ... |
Burly Farmer (uncredited)
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Manson Behfeld | ... |
Farm Boy (uncredited)
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George Beranger | ... |
Assistant (uncredited)
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J. Bonini | ... |
Intern (uncredited)
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William Burress | ... |
Doctor François (uncredited)
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Wheaton Chambers | ... |
Alsatian (uncredited)
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Mabel Colcord | ... |
A Lady (uncredited)
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Frank Darien | ... |
Academy Member (uncredited)
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Eddie Dew | ... |
Man (uncredited)
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Bill Elliott | ... |
Reporter (uncredited)
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Alphonse Ethier | ... |
Finance Minister (uncredited)
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Florence Fair | ... |
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
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Ralph Fitzsimmons | ... |
Doctor (uncredited)
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Brenda Fowler | ... |
Midwife (uncredited)
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Blanche Franke | ... |
Nurse (uncredited)
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Otto Fries | ... |
Servant (uncredited)
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Kathy Frye | ... |
Louis Pasteur's Youngest Daughter (uncredited)
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Baron Hesse | ... |
Fat Doctor (uncredited)
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Herbert Heywood | ... |
Boncourt (uncredited)
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Otto Hoffman | ... |
Farmer (uncredited)
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Isabel La Mal | ... |
Maid (uncredited)
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Wilfred Lucas | ... |
Reporter (uncredited)
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Eric Mayne | ... |
Lord Chamberlain (uncredited)
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Frank Mayo | ... |
Sadi Carnot (uncredited)
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Leonard Mudie | ... |
Coachman (uncredited)
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Jean Perry | ... |
Doctor (uncredited)
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Frederick Peters | ... |
Blacksmith (uncredited)
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John Picorri | ... |
Doctor (uncredited)
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Tempe Pigott | ... |
Woman (uncredited)
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Jack Santoro | ... |
Reporter (uncredited)
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Ferdinand Schumann-Heink | ... |
Reporter (uncredited)
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C. Montague Shaw | ... |
British Reporter (uncredited)
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Leonid Snegoff | ... |
Russian Ambassador (uncredited)
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Robert Strange | ... |
Magistrate (uncredited)
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Anders Van Haden | ... |
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
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Edward Van Sloan | ... |
Chairman of Medical Society (uncredited)
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Fred Walton | ... |
Government Inspector (uncredited)
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Frank Ward | ... |
Child (uncredited)
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Paul Weigel | ... |
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
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Niles Welch | ... |
Courier with Letter (uncredited)
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Marie Wells | ... |
Nurse (uncredited)
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Lottie Williams | ... |
Cecile (uncredited)
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Directed by
William Dieterle |
Written by
Sheridan Gibney | ... | (story) & |
Pierre Collings | ... | (story) |
Sheridan Gibney | ... | (screenplay) & |
Pierre Collings | ... | (screenplay) |
Edward Chodorov | ... | () (uncredited) |
Produced by
Hal B. Wallis | ... | executive producer (uncredited) |
Jack L. Warner | ... | executive producer (uncredited) |
Music by
Heinz Roemheld | ... | (uncredited) |
Cinematography by
Tony Gaudio | ... | (photography by) |
Editing by
Ralph Dawson | ... | (edited by) |
Art Direction by
Robert M. Haas |
Costume Design by
Milo Anderson | ... | (gowns) |
Makeup Department
Clay Campbell | ... | makeup (uncredited) |
Norbert A. Myles | ... | makeup artist (uncredited) |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Irving Rapper | ... | assistant director (uncredited) |
Frank Shaw | ... | assistant director (uncredited) |
Art Department
Armor Marlowe | ... | props (uncredited) |
Sound Department
Charles Lang | ... | sound (uncredited) |
Nathan Levinson | ... | recording director (uncredited) |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Eugene Joseff | ... | costume jeweller (uncredited) |
Music Department
Leo F. Forbstein | ... | musical director |
Bernhard Kaun | ... | composer: main and end title music (uncredited) / composer: trailer (uncredited) / orchestrator (uncredited) |
Paul Marquardt | ... | composer: stock music (uncredited) |
Additional Crew
Gene Lewis | ... | dialogue director |
Jean Alden | ... | stand-in: Anita Louise (uncredited) |
Henry Blanke | ... | supervisor (uncredited) |
S. Charles Einfeld | ... | press agent (uncredited) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Warner Bros. (1935) (United States) (theatrical) (as Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.) (present)
- Vitagraph Limited (1936) (Canada) (theatrical)
- Warner Brothers Pictures (1936) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Warner Bros. First National Films (1936) (Austria) (theatrical)
- Warner Brothers First National Films (1936) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Warner Brothers First National Films (1936) (Norway) (theatrical)
- M.P.E.A. (1947) (Austria) (theatrical) (re-issue)
- Rozdelovna Filmu Ceskoslovenského Státního Filmu (1948) (Czechoslovakia) (theatrical)
- Associated Artists Productions (AAP) (1956) (United States) (tv)
- MGM Home Entertainment (1990) (United States) (video) (Betamax)
- Warner Home Video (1994) (United States) (video) (LaserDisc)
- Cinema First (2022) (United States) (video)
- MGM/UA Home Entertainment (United States) (VHS)
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Storyline
Plot Summary |
In 1860 Paris, chemist Louis Pasteur is considered a quack within the medical community for advocating that doctors and surgeons wash their hands and boil their instruments to destroy microbes that can kill their patients. He came across this belief when discovering microscopic organisms in sour wine which could be killed if heated sufficiently. The belief among the scientific community at large is that the organisms are the result of disease and not the cause. This belief is despite the fact that 30% of women die in childbirth due to childbed disease, accounting for 20,000 annual deaths in Paris alone. The debate takes Pasteur all the way to a meeting with Emperor Napoleon III and his physician, Dr. Charbonnet, who is one of the leading opponents of Pasteur. Several years later, France is a republic and much of Pasteur's reputation changes as a government sanctioned experiment with anthrax and sheep shows that a vaccine created by Pasteur proves effective. As Pasteur begins work on finding the cause and a cure for rabies, which proves a more difficult challenge, he still has his detractors, including Dr. Charbonnet. This continuing debate brings about his biggest challenge: proving that microbes are the cause of all disease. Through it all, he is supported not only by his family, but Dr. Jean Martel, who was once a junior physician in the emperor's court and a physician within the republic's government, but who now works with Pasteur and is his son-in-law. But an act of bravado by Charbonnet may ultimately prove to be the breakthrough for which Pasteur is looking. Moving the experimental treatments from animals to humans proves a bigger obstacle, as is Charbonnet's need to win at all cost in the court of public opinion. Written by Huggo |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | An electrician for Warner Bros. came up to Paul Muni after an advanced screening of the film and told him that his nine-year-old son asked him to buy him a microscope because of Muni's performance. Even though he went on to win the Oscar for it, Muni said that this was the greatest compliment he had ever received and that all other accolades meant nothing compared to that one. See more » |
Goofs | Pasteur refers to the "rabies virus" prior to completing development of his vaccine and immunization of Joseph Meister in 1885, but the idea of a non-bacterial pathogen didn't exist until 1892, and the term "virus" itself was coined when the first (tobacco mosaic) was isolated in 1898. See more » |
Movie Connections | Edited into The Our Gang Story (1994). See more » |
Quotes |
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[addressing The Academy of Medicine - directing his remarks to the young men in the balcony] Dr. Louis Pasteur: You young men - doctors and scientists of the future - do not let yourselves be tainted by apparent skepticism; nor discouraged by the sadness of certain hours that creep over nations. Do not become angry at your opponents, for no scientific theory has ever been accepted without opposition. Live in the serene peace of libraries and laboratories. Say to yourselves, first, "What have I done for my instruction?" And as you gradually advance, "What am I accomplishing?" Until the time comes when you may have the immense happiness of thinking that you have contributed in some way to the welfare and progress of mankind. See more » |