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The Magic Alphabet

10/10/1942

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0hr 11min

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Drama

STORY

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short dramatizes how the work of Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman, who searched for a cure for beri-beri on the island of Java in the 1890s, led to the discovery of vitamins.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • John Nesbitt
  • Stephen McNally
  • Dorothy Morris
  • Emmett Vogan

    Director

  • Jacques Tourneur

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

John Nesbitt

Narrator (voice)

Stephen McNally

Dr. Christiaan Eijkman

Dorothy Morris

Secretary (uncredited)

Emmett Vogan

Scientist (uncredited)